HOW I WORK

My work comes from spending time with British gardens and wildlife: looking, learning, and listening. Our lives move quickly and are rarely still, which makes it easy to overlook what doesn’t demand attention. I am drawn to the small and familiar—flowers, insects going about their business, and birds such as rooks that hover at the edges of human activity.

Apart from stealing photographs of flowers from formal gardens, I spend a lot of time on marginal land—road verges, the edges of tracks, scraps of forgotten urban wasteland—places where plants appear without invitation and carry on regardless. These overlooked spaces matter as much to the work as cultivated gardens.

Time runs quietly through the work. Flowers that have been carefully tended over months may last only days, or weeks at best. I photograph these moments without apology, preserving them and adding another layer to the act of gardening itself.

The images are built slowly. Photographs gathered over time are layered and rearranged, forming networks rather than single views. Through this process, the ordinary is allowed to shift—occasionally—into something beautiful.