Following my first degree in Fine Art and French, my career path began in landscape photography, leading to more commercial fashion and then garden freelance work.

Steering away from black and white darkroom work towards computer manipulated imagery combined with my work with garden designers gave me an ever increasing desire to become involved in the design and implementation of physical space.

Landscape Architecture, then, allowed me to move into design on a larger and more public scale, and also to enable me to further release my artistic desires into my work.

My fascination for the landscape was enhanced during my university course which I carried out in Wales as I became empassioned by the wild, uncultivated spaces there. Subsequently, time spent living in France enabled me to experience similar places on a larger scale, but also an exciting mixture of more contemporary landscapes and urban design.

I think my personal design approach, then, has been born of this dichotomy; a desire to think ‘differently’ and to ‘design’ a space in a new and effective manner, whilst ensuring that an underlying, ‘untamed’ element whereby nature and natural processes are very much announced and brought to the attention, is also present.

In the same way that I am keen for nature to retain its autonomy in my designs, I would also like to encourage individual expression. My aim is to design a space that will bring out people’s own individual will- to encourage them to use their own spirit and individuality to use a space, without making a conscious effort to do so. And to evoke the imagination. Spaces that are physically pleasing, whilst subtly transporting people to different places in their minds.

I feel very strongly about compromising on design details and promote ‘thinking beyond the box’ where budgets might be concerned; carry out a deeper, more radical investigation of, say, materials that might be cheaper but just as effective. The re-use of materials in ‘new’ ways is advantageous to budgets and also the environment, a design’s sustainability being of extreme importance in the current unsettled climate.