I am a horticulturalist, artist and facilitator based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. My practice moves between domestic and public gardens, collaborative workshops and research-led projects. I explore herbalism, plant care and embodied knowledge through socially engaged forms of making.
I care for gardens in both private and public contexts, and develop participatory creative workshops that focus on building meaningful relationships between people and plants. Alongside this, I lead Herb Study Club, a collaborative project exploring medicinal plants through sensory experience, tea, and collective learning.
My work is concerned with the gathering of people around plants — the quiet communion that emerges through tending, tasting, smelling and sitting together. These encounters become spaces for reflection and exchange, shaped by personal and collective histories, identity and memory. I am interested in how plants hold and carry these layered relationships and how they help us make sense of the world and our place within it.
Recent collaborators include:
Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, the British Library and Yorkshire Contemporary.
Since January 2025, I have been part of Yorkshire Contemporary’s artist development programme for early-career artists. During this time, I have been developing research into how plants become part of our lineages and inherited memory, focusing on colonial botany as a site of inquiry. This research is being developed through watercolour, writing and sensory study as an ongoing form of documentation.
Working in community is central to my practice. I am always open to collaboration, shared projects and invitations — please do get in touch.
Qualifications
RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Garden Planning, Establishment and Maintenance, Askham Bryan College
BA International Relations (First Class), University of Birmingham
First Aid Trained and Insured
Remembrance
In plants I find the way home.
The callings of my Guka echoing through the wind,
Sending messages through the dandelion seeds. Setting roots as they go.
It's not that I never learnt, it's that I have forgotten.
Shifts in time and space have caused this passing of knowledge. It’s still in the wind but those callings are carrying it back with them.
My ancestors are reaching me even if I am thousands of spaces away.
Through the plants I remember. They are the vehicle to belonging, to acceptance.
They are the elders I never met in human form but still know intimately.
*Guka means Grandfather in the Kikuyu language (my mothertongue)
