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Understanding The Durability of Botanical Paper Sculptures One of the questions I am often asked about my botanical paper sculptures is: "The flowers look so beautiful! Are they fragile?" It is an understandable question. After all, they are made from paper, a material most of us associate with something that can easily tear, crease or wear. But these paper plants are often more robust than people expect. I make my botanical sculptures to be part of a home, where they can be

I was delighted when Octavia Dickinson invited me to create the paper flowers for The English Garden Palette, her collaboration with Edward Bulmer Natural Paint. The idea was to bring an English garden into their Pimlico Road showroom, surrounded by Octavia’s patterns and Edward’s beautiful colours. I had the pleasure of creating the paper flower installation for their Pimlico Road showroom in London, bringing together hand-crafted flowers, Octavia’s beautiful patterns and E

I came home from San Francisco with a camera roll full of the usual sights, but also plenty of things that probably would not make it into a guidebook. Flowers, beautiful houses, terracotta roofs, leaves, windows. I found myself noticing the city in much the same way I look at a garden, always looking at shapes, colours and textures. Those beautiful bay windows I could not stop looking at the houses, particularly their bay windows. Each one seemed to give the building its own