‘Wild Spring Meadow’ and ‘Ranunculus Garden’ are two large botanical photo art prints released with the Wild & Garden collection. Each of these contrasting statement pieces involved taking a series of photographs in the meadows and in the garden, then adding, blending and editing to the minutest details. My creative vision was that each would represent […]
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For collectors, floral and garden enthusiasts, I have listed the Latin and common English names of the flowers in this botanical photography artwork ‘Iris Wild Garden’. The Latin – also known as the botanical or scientific name – means that wherever you are in the world, the same language of flowers can be used to
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll often read in my captions about the latest plans and work in my garden. Before I start writing posts about the plants I grow and the seasonal flower beds I’m creating, I wanted to share with you the ‘before’ scenes and layout of my Algarve garden. It was
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If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable… then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge. Rainer Maria Rilke,
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Just as we were expecting spring to arrive here in West Sussex winter descended upon us. Throughout the winter months I had hoped for some snow and then it finally turned up at the end of February and again in March. The snow storm known as the ‘Beast from the East’ meant we had that
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“Determined that this diary should start off with a bit of flourish, I sallied forth on this fine winter’s day to see what I could find in bloom. The answer was, quite a lot.” Richard Adams, A Nature Diary from Winter An anthology for the changing seasons“ It’s easy to assume that all the blooms
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