I was asked recently what brought me into the field of designing Healing Gardens. It really is a very personal experience, just like every client who shares their story with me. When I was growing up, we lived in council … Read More
As a 20 something, I saw the chains around my mother’s life one day and she told me that her baggage from childhood was stopping her from making friends and had done all her life. So I asked her, why … Read More
We all have emotional pain. Things happen, feelings overwhelm, mistrust of our ability to cope arrives and we are coaxed to divert, bury and avoid so others find it easier to be with us and we continue to function as … Read More
Dreaming is the most powerful way of engaging your mind with hope and aspiration. A dream taker is one who when confronted by a dreamer, realises their own self imposed limitations and seeks to squash the exposure of that. It … Read More
From war ravaged homelands the children bring their familiar culture. Rocks were weapons, missiles in plentiful supply, propelled with anger towards injustice. In the absence of war in a new country, rocks present a dilemma representing the straddling of cultures … Read More
An artist chooses to believe in their work, as self belief is like fertiliser to the beauty the world needs. Those who fear, feel insecure and believe in others will choose to doubt themselves. Doubt is like poison to creativity. … Read More
Two small boys, buddies in class are sent out to ask me a question as i set out plants in their new Rainforest garden. ‘Miss, can we grow these seeds?’ I ask what they are from. It was fruit, the … Read More