In this series of photographs I explore how the plants in my garden change throughout the year.

As I tend the garden, I am fascinated to see the changes in all the garden plants. I see beauty in dried twisted seed heads, flower buds, fragile rotting fruits with papery skins and leaves ridden with holes from garden pests.

The work is made through the process of carefully arranging cuttings and plants in the studio, which I have gathered from my garden. Each photograph gives a sense of the garden at that particular moment in the year (one photo each month).

My work is inspired by botanical reference books (which are familiar to me since childhood), such as 'The Concise British Flora in Colour' by W. Keble Martin.

This project was selected for the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2020, in the portfolio category and was awarded a Bronze Medal.

Exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London from 18th September - 9th October 2021.

View slideshow of this project.

You can follow the series on Instagram with the unique hashtag #12monthspassing

Animated sequence and selected photographs below.