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About

Over 35 years as a professional Landscape Architect
Registered Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers (FSGD)

About

Since 1990 I have worked directly with private clients and also collaborated freelance with architects, landscape architects, and landscape contractors. I have been involved with the design, planting and implementation of a wide range of public and private landscapes and gardens, commercial developments, refurbishment, research and restoration works and early years school projects.

I have a BA honours degree in Geography and trained in Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh University, MPhil in 1980. My first work was with Shepheard Epstein and Hunter, architects, planners and landscape architects, gaining good experience on some fabulous projects.

Values

  • Good design, aiming to achieve beautiful, functional and enduring places
  • Working collaboratively with clients, exploring and interpreting the dynamics of site, brief, and my response as designer, to produce thoughtful and site specific proposals
  • To delight my clients
  • Using appropriate materials and quality of workmanship
  • Having a beneficial impact on the environment
  • Always to learn something new

Life in Design

  • Chair of FOLAR (Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading) (current)
  • Chair of Society of Garden Designers (2009-2012)
  • Talks on 20c drawings and landscape architecture for Garden History Society, Museum of Garden History (now Garden Museum) and Charleston Gardens Trust
  • Part-time lecturer, Historic Garden Conservation at the University of Greenwich (2009), and Designing with Plants at the University of Newcastle (2021-present)
  • A member of the Royal Parks Guild
  • Co-curated events and series of conferences for Society of Garden Designers including 25th Anniversary Friday Late at V&A museum (2005), and New Conceptualist Garden in association with Tate Britain (2009)
  • Co-organised Landscape Institute 75th anniversary exhibition (2004)
  • Archivist, established 20c landscape drawings collection with Landscape Institute (1995-2009)