Education

Principles of Horticulture Level 2 – Royal Horticulture Society – Plumpton College

Garden Design Level 3 – Plumpton College

Design Interactions MA – Royal College of Art

Fine Art First Class Honours Degree – Winchester School of Art

About me

I grew up on a self-build housing estate in the 1980s, set within pine woodland. The estate was still under construction when we moved in, so my early surroundings were in constant flux—trees and earth alongside scaffolding, open ground, and machinery. It was an environment where the built and the natural were never separate, but continuously overlapping, shaping how I understood both.

In my early teens we moved to a house on an unadopted road backing onto an industrial estate. Here, concrete and corrugated structures sat alongside buddleia, wild grasses, and nettles quietly reclaiming space. These thresholds—where the cultivated gives way to the self-seeded—became my reference point for landscape: places of tension, resilience, and quiet persistence.

As urban environments continue to expand, these edges feel increasingly significant. They offer a different way of seeing gardens—not as controlled, static spaces, but as living systems shaped by time, use, and natural processes.

My work as a gardener and designer is rooted in this understanding. I approach each project as a conversation between site, client, and environment, creating spaces that feel responsive, grounded, and alive to their context.

My career as a hairdresser continues to inform this process. It taught me to read the individual, to work intuitively with material, and to value subtle, personal expression. I came to see hair as a natural medium—something to respond to rather than control. That same sensitivity carries through my design work, where each garden is shaped as a bespoke response, rather than a fixed idea applied.

At the heart of my practice is a simple belief: we are not separate from nature, but part of it. Gardens, like people, are expressions of that relationship—evolving, adaptive, and inherently connected to the environments they inhabit.

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