ABOUT
My journey through the creative industries started with a BA Hons degree in 3 Dimensional Design (specialising in Theatre) and working as a freelance designer for theatre companies in London and the Midlands.
It was hard work with little pay, so in a move to top up my income, I became the part-time Project Administrator for CADA - a street detox centre for heroin addicts and PA to textile and furniture designers Robin and Lucienne Day. For 3 years, I moved constantly from the Old Kent Road to Cheyne Walk - from one striking extreme to the other.
Having finally tired of travelling east to west, I joined the Camden based creative team at George Davies Corporation. A move which led to becoming one of the founding partners of DARTSPACE graphic design studio. After 10 brilliant years working in the buzz of Central London, space and the outdoors called. I retrained as a Garden Designer handling projects in London, the Home Counties, Scotland and Corfu.
For an interim 3 years, I joined renowned Architectural Plants, becoming Head of Sales and honing my knowledge of all things tree and evergreen.
I now have the privilege of working with some amazing private clients and am thrilled to be able to combine the skills and experience from the various creative industries.
ETHOS
Having spent over 15 years designing countless number of gardens and following the ranging trends and fashions of landscape design and architecture, I realise I’m not a controller of nature.
I don’t like to force my aesthetic on a plant or landscape. I don’t like to change it unnecessarily. I like to study it and meet it half-way somewhere between ‘it' and ‘me’ - taking what I believe to be the best bits and enhancing them and so avoiding a manicured outcome or obliterating the original essence of its true nature.
I have always been a nature lover. Brought up in suburbia, without the open spaces of the countryside, I installed myself under tree canopies in the front garden and spent hours in my private microcosm, admittedly made up predominantly of weeds, daisies, buttercups and grasses, but one where I studied life and form pocket-sized. From that early age I was drawn by the relationship of one plant to another which now I realise is the essence of what inspires and directs my work today.
The biggest delight I have is when that ‘dialogue’ during the course of plant styling, flower arranging or landscape designing takes off - when you start working with something and then suddenly, there it is - it’s done its own thing, it’s excelled itself and finished off your job for you in a much more beautiful and wonderful way than you could ever have planned.