What I am Doing Now

 
Doing a drawing by hand has become the most important part of my working life. Thanks to being employed by someone who appreciates it, I've rediscovered the joy of both 'drawing' and 'designing' and it has reconfirmed the indelible link between the two actions.

I'm working principally as a garden designer now, some call it landscape architecture, but it sounds too much like a tall order. I prefer to call myself an architect who is learning to work outside in deference to those chaps who know how to put living things in the ground and keep them alive - a much more delicate operation than say - laying bricks.

An appreciation of how things are put together properly is the hardest thing for an architect to attain. It's the handling of the joints and boundaries that make all the difference. So what I am doing now, working with organic beings, has a greater resonance within my spirit than I ever thought work would give. In retrospect obtaining a Bachelor of Architecture degree was important. Despite always feeling that I didn't learn that much at University, nonetheless, it is an affirmation of what I love doing.