My 2026 Calendar is now available via my shop at Love From The Artist. The calendars are sustainably printed on FSC standard papers to order and come without celophane wrappers as standard to reduce plastic waste. They are available in two sizes, 210mm square at £12 each and 297mm square at £16 each, plus postage … More 2026 Calendar
I’m excited to share that yesterday I discovered my Water Lilies photographic portfolio has been awarded a gold medal at the RHS Botanical Art & Photography show. The show is being held at the Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London and is free to enter this year, so do visit if you’re nearby. It’s an honour … More Water Lilies wins RHS Gold medal
Update: orders must be placed by 7th Dec to ensure Christmas delivery. This year my calendar celebrates the chalk grasslands here in Dorset. Combining images from my award winning Dorset Downs series with pictures of some of the wild flowers and butterflies found in this internationally rare habitat. Calendars are on FSC certified papers and … More 2024 Calendar
I’m so happy to share that I have a portfolio of work on show at the RHS Botanical Art & Photography 2023 at the Saatchi Gallery in London, and that The Dorset Downs has been awarded a gold medal. My portfolio is a collection of images of the chalk downland here in Dorset. Calcareous grasslands … More Dorset Downs wins RHS Gold
I’ve often thought about doing a daily or weekly photography challenge, I’ve seen other photographers undertake them and the journey looks interesting. However, I am not and have never been good at following rules so instead I’ve set myself the very gentle challenge of building a visual diary of my botanical encounters over the year. … More A year in wild flowers
I’m delighted to share that my image of the Dorset Downs, taken last summer was awarded 2nd place in the Square Crop category of IGPOTY 16. The image is currently on exhibition at Kew Gardens alongside some wonderful and creative work from talented photographers from all over the world. You can see all of the … More IGPOTY 16
Update – Wild is now available at Kozu Books I’m delighted to announce that Wild, a book of my photography is now available for preorder at KOZU books. I’m so excited about this publication and can’t wait to share it with the world. The book is a collection of intimate landscapes and portraits of nature … More Wild
This weekend I wanted to go out and hunt for frog orchids on the downs, but my little car had other plans, flashing scary warning lights at me, so I found myself at home in the village this weekend. As this week’s challenge for #wilfdlflowerhour (my favourite Twitter event every Sunday at 8-9pm) I went … More Botanical Collage
It’s my favourite time of year again here in Dorset, the woods are carpeted with bluebells and the leaves on the trees are bursting from their buds. Bluebells are one of my favourite flowers to spend time with and to photograph so I thought I would write a post about how I go about photographing … More Photographing Bluebells
November finds us in another lockdown and the weather is wet and dull outside, so to cheer myself up I’ve been losing myself in photo editing. I’d taken a few images of water lilies in the last few weeks and they’ve formed the basis of this series. I love the shapes of the lily leaves, … More Water lilies
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