I spent 15 challenging and fulfilling years in chemistry, and now am looking at nature through another passion.

What English cottage style also means is lower maintenance gardens through close planting and careful selection of plants that will thrive and out-compete weeds. I don't use chemicals or pesticides, and try to create wildlife-friendly gardens, which provide inspirational color and scent through the seasons.

My creative spirit is nourished by my passion for nature. Working in clay reveals my infatuation with color, texture, form, light shadow and patterns.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.