In the Gardens of the Queen is a digital embroidery drawn from photographs taken in the Walled Garden at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The garden has a strong sense of continuity, with flowers that bloom much as they did over a century ago. In 2024, the peonies were exceptional, opening in dense layers of pink, ivory, and pale gold under ideal conditions.

The work brings together these blooms, along with climbing vines and wildflowers, into a layered composition that feels untethered from a single moment. The flowers seem to pull the viewer backwards through time, suggesting repetition rather than change. During Queen Victoria’s reign, similar flowers would have been cut from these gardens and arranged inside Osborne House. Here, that tradition is reimagined through photography, preserving not a specific arrangement, but the enduring presence of the garden itself as it continues, season after season.