I'm here to support you every step of the way to create your dream garden.
Design Outside.
I love how a well-designed outdoor space can make us feel, influence how we live and come together with family & friends. I see a garden as more than just plants. It is an extension of our home, a representation of our individuality and a private place for calmness & relaxation. Our gardens can be as personal and distinctive as the inside of our homes, designed to support the rhythm of a busy life.
A Creative at heart.
I had a successful career in Marketing & PR for nearly 30 years (at Disney, PlayStation, Sony Music and more) and loved every minute of it. I thrived on the creativity, the buzz, working all over the world and making big ideas happen.
Then I turned 50 and decided to take a beat. To think about who I was, where I’d got to and how I wanted to spend the next chapter of my life. Big moment! I left London and moved to Whitstable on the East Kent coast. I love living near the sea, the big epic skies and being surrounded by wild open spaces.
Later in life, I yearned to pick up a pencil again and get back to being a creative. I decided to retrain to be a Garden & Landscape Designer.
Think Outside.
I studied Garden Design at the prestigious Inchbald School of Design in Chelsea, London. I graduated with a Distinction and was awarded ‘The Dean & Founders Prize’ for Garden Design.
It was such an incredible experience to train under the best Garden & Landscape Designers in the industry, led by Andrew Duff MSGD. Here I turned my passion for gardening into something special. I was taught how to create beautiful, functioning spaces from a blank canvas. How to arrange ‘mass & void’, build journeys on a visual, physical and emotional level, and how to think about the distribution of colour, texture and form. This might all sound very theoretical but understanding these principles (and more) is what allows a good garden designer to get started.
Play Outside.
You don’t need a huge outdoor space to make it personal to you, and you certainly don’t need to be a horticulturalist to nurture & grow lovely plants. All you need is an idea of how you’d like to use your garden, and I’ll create a extra special design just for you.