instantly, nature.

I mean the majesty of nature.

The beauty of

plants and flowers and the natural world.

I just am utterly fascinated and delighted with.

I grew up in Zimbawe, so I'm African by birth.

Flowers really captured my imagination

from a very young age. I was just kind of enraptured

by them. At senior school we

spent 5 days up in the mountains.

This place called Ringwood. Bernie the guy who ran it

noticed and acknowledged my love of

nature. My love of plants and flowers

wasn't really something that had a currency at school.

What I loved was ridiculed rather than appreciated.

To have my love of plants and flowers affirmed

and affirmed in front of my peers,

was I think quite a turning point for me.

A friend of mine gave me a book

called one sketch a day

and the provisor is as you can imagine is

drawing one little sketch a day.

And so I started doing that

and you know very quick sketches

and out of that I started, unsurprisingly, drawing flowers.

One day I drew

a flower that was a little ginger lily

a Hedychium coronarium

and then I sort of absent-mindedly took it apart

and then laid out some of its parts

and then I sketched those.

I kind of liked what I saw there

and slowly this developed into me photographing

deconstructed flowers and plants.

I'm very interested in botany academically

but when I come to photographing something

I don't photograph it in an academic style.

I only include in my compositions what

I find very beautiful.

And that is not to say that the individual piece

is not beautiful

it's just how it looks in my composition.

I had no idea that it would become a book.

A book was always something I wanted to do.

And expect that it would probably be a floristry book

But this book couldn't be more me.

I've always seen the beauty in flowers.

It gives me so much joy to share

in the delight of that beauty with others.

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