A multidisciplinary artist I am passionate about the relationships between plants and people.
I have an active interest in ethnobotanical investigation producing work with many layered considerations and narratives whether environmental, spiritual, symbolic, or cultural.
I employ drawing, painting, making some of my own mineral paints, photography and sculpture, using plant material I have grown and processed.
I engage with plant material accessed from my local landscape, National Plant Collections, Physic Gardens and Community Projects.
My Art Practice has been informed by over twenty years working as a Horticulturalist, a journey which began when I rented a studio at Hackney City Farm in east London and started volunteering in the garden. Going on to manage organic/biodynamic market gardens and herb workshops in therapeutic settings in both Community Gardens and City Farms.
My work is often informed by walking my local topography on foot, reflecting on the plants I come across, exploring notions of home, the passing of time, temporality and impermanence.
I exhibit widely and was awarded a Silver Gilt medal in 2022 for my ‘Seeds of Hope’ paintings at the prestigious RHS Botanical Art Show, Saatchi Gallery, London.
I am delighted to be selected once again to exhibit three watercolour paintings at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London 26th March - 5th April 2025.
It is wonderful to be able to announce the details of this project which I have been involved with for a couple of years. The publication of the book 'A Jewel in the Forest ' , with accompanying exhibition on 27th June to 12th July 2025 at the Bury Guildhall is the culmination of a project to document the beautiful and rare plant collection at Fullers Mill Garden in Suffolk by the Iceni Botanical Artists.
I have two paintings as part of the Sir Cedric Morris Florilegium collection archived at Gainsborough House in Sudbury, and am excited to also be exhibiting my painting of Benton Argent as part of Sara Cooks RHS Chelsea Flower Show Exhibit in 2025.
I am a member of the Iceni Botanical Artists Society, the East Anglian artists group – Artworks, and a former member of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium and the Bedgebury Pinetum Florilegium.
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