PROJECTS
Garden Museum Winter Festival 2025 ‘The Language of Ice’
Strawberry Hill flower festival 2025 ‘Bird of Peace’
Chelsea Flower Show 2025 ‘Love our Rivers’
Chilterns Seeds, Chelsea Flower Show 2025
Strawberry Hill Flower Festival 2022 ‘Sunshine & shadow’
A completely new design and the first of its kind. A double-sided willow framed window, in the form of a narrow delicate see-through box, with two distinct separate wire-backed flower meadows on either side, one is bright, colourful, and happy, and the other is muted, shadowy and subtle. The idea for this was inspired by the yin and yang of life, the two simultaneous sides we all live with, light and dark. How in times of apparent darkness, there is often a bright side that will emerge from it, something wonderful and unforeseen. When viewed with light behind it, it resembles an illuminated stained glass layered window of flowers.
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Strawberry Hill Flower Festival 2023 ‘The Portal’
Botany & Other stories, Cabinet of Curiosities 2024 ‘Flower Globe’
Collaboration with Finn Beales 2024 ‘Where you shine Light’
Collaboration with Finn Beales 2024 ‘Fair Crows’
Collaboration withTaittinger Champagne 2022 Campagaign for BAFTA Cymru
Collaboration with Andrea Gilpin, Justine Cook & An Acre of Land.
‘Wild Moon’
Oriel Davies Gallery 2022
National Gallery Rembrandt tour installation
‘A suspended everlasting blossom forest’ This was part of an exhibition containing a Rembrandt masterpiece that was on tour from the National Gallery. The beautiful 1635 portrait of Rembradts wife Saskia van Uylenburgh, sits radiant in Arcadian costume, surrounded by flowers and greenery. The suspended blossom forest made from 2-3 meter suspended hazel trees decorated with strawflowers and eucalyptus leaves, was designed to be an immersive experience, bringing to mind not just a sense of arcadia, but also touching on the Welsh folktale of the Mabinogion flower goddess Blodeuwedd. I worked in collaboration with Lewis Prosser, Basket-maker/nature sculptor, Andrea Gilpin, Wild Meadow photographer, and Sean Vicary, whose work adorned the walls creating a wonderful marriage of the old masterpiece, folklore, myth, and the present day, allowing your imagination to run wild. This installation was in place for three months and looked great for the duration.
Wreath making for Extraordinary escapes, CH4 2023
Set design and walk-on filming part, teaching Sandi Toksvig and Roisin Conaty to make everlasting flower wreaths for season three of Extraordinary Escapes, episode 3, Ch4. It was filmed in the beautiful location of Hergest Lee, a holiday let near Kington Herefordshire.
Featuring in BBC Gardeners World 2024 with Sue Kent
Roger Oates entrance archway installation February 2022
Hazel and birch branches, decorated with a subtle palette of dried grasses, flowers, and seeds. This large wild-themed left-sided archway was created from a rambling abundance of ivy, heads, traveler’s joy, and delicate tendrils of catkin branches. Mounted on the exterior of the shop in early spring, it was designed to withstand an outside environment, with the view of it being moved inside at a later date. The theme was ‘spring’ as well as a range of flower colours to reflect the shop window display behind it.
Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2021
A suspended festive installation at the apex of a large marquee brings drama, fun, and sparkle on a large scale. The aim of this design was to create something a bit “different” to encourage thought and quizzical interest of nature as a variation of the traditional take on the festive season. I teamed up with artists Kate Kato of Kasasagi Design, and Jemima Stilwell to create a mixed-media design, suspended at different levels down the length of the marquee. I made four huge 3 x 1.5m flower clouds consisting of all foraged birch, bracken, grasses, travelers’ joy, leaves, and foliage. Between these hung Kate Kato’s tumbling oversized paper oak leaves, large life-like flying moth replicas all made from recycled paper and card, and Jemima Stilwell’s 2D large cardboard birds soaring in between. Ball fairy lights and paper pompoms interspersed the whole design to give it a sparkly, light airy feel.
hay Festival Winter Weekand November 2018
Festive canopy décor for the ceiling of a large festival marquee. The design consisted of five 2m hazel wreaths hung horizontally along the center of the marquee above the heads of the public bar area below. Each wreath was festooned in swags of birch branches, alliums, travelers’ joy, honesty, evergreen oak, and other leaves and foliage. The effect was a dramatic wild winter vibe, creating a sense of woodland atmosphere overhead. I created this installation alongside Rosanna Bulmer and Jody Parry (of Light Industries).
Hay Festival Winter Weekend , Hay Castle November 2022
Situated in the main hall in Hay Castle, this installation worked around a large high-ceilinged public space and festival stage. Two large five-meter rambling and wayward garlands made of hazel branches, birch, travellers joy and colourful everlasting flowers wove their way around the ancient stone walls bringing a vibrant, wild, and ethereal quality to the space. Giant irregularly sized paper stars made by Kate Kato of Kasasagi design hung randomly from the branches adding a beautiful festive touch. Her bewitching paper life-like mushroom and toadstool sculptures could be glimpsed in nooks and crannies throughout the room too. On the stage I created a large three-meter-high everlasting blossom tree, delicately adorned with hundreds of white strawflowers. This was a striking and different festive look for the winter festival. Two large windows facing the town were decorated with trailing ethereal strands of honesty, bracken-fronds, and dried flowers, creating beautiful delicate silhouettes against the light.
Chapters Restaurant Hay-on-Wye February 2023
A large flower cloud for the the restaurant window. Designed using white and neutral colours, the cloud was made to be a long irregular shape that would allow light to filter through it. The look was minimal and elegant, using pampas grass and honesty as a main base.
