Observation of the botanical seasons

Documenting plants as they appear over the course of twelve month – and raising awareness to curb climate change to ensure the seasons can continue.

Endangered food plants and fungi

There is a very rapid extinction happening in our food chain due to climate change like for example in some of our favourites like, coffee, grapes, chocolate, bananas, avocado, chamomile and vanilla.

Future food

Some food plants might help to diversify our increasingly unvaried diets and are crucial in helping to improve global food shortages.

Food plants thriving after extreme weather

With the advance of climate change, unprecedented weather patterns such as droughts, fires and flooding are becoming more frequent. Finding staple foods plants that can survive or thrive in these circumstances are essential.

Sustainable food of the future

Beans and legumes will become an even more important crop for future food solutions with the climate shifting, as they don't need many nutrients and legumes are nitrogen fixing amongst various other benefits.

Tree health after extreme heat and drought

They are affected by the unusual hot and dry or wet weather. Urban trees in London grow in a different way than ever before. Their loss of energy due to this stress is interrupting their own cycle and also photosynthesis was shortened.

Seeds.

Without soil, sunlight, water and the right nutrients, a seed is simply buried but not planted.

Endangered and extinct flowers

Many flowers and trees that have never been on the endangered list before are rapidly vanishing. Plant extinction is occurring up to 500 times faster than what would be expected naturally.

Circles

Symbolising strength, wholeness and infinity. Representing the earth, the sun and the moon

Ongoing project about the element SPACE

Before earth, air, water, fire — there is space. From which everything else emerges. Almost every element in our body was forged in the heart of stars and scattered across the universe when they died.

Fire

is both a destructive and regenerative force in nature, vital to the cycles of growth and decay. Crops, for example, maintain a symbiotic relationship with fire: after harvest, crop residues are burned to clear fields, manage pests, and return key nutrients like potassium and phosphorus to the soil.

Fresh water

Life and water belong ultimately together. Water is a unique source that underpins all drivers of growth. Only 2.5% of all water on Earth is fresh water, of which less than 1% is accessible – yet this resource is essential for human life.

Earth health

Soil is an irreplaceable resource that nurtures our plants and microorganisms and therefor all other life too. The ecosystems rely on the health and richness of it. This means it is the foundation of our food system and helps to provide us with essential nutrients.

Clean air

Layered ink paintings, air quality graph collages and cork willow installations resembling our lung trees. A metaphorical interpretation of our relationship with air and an exploration what nature exposed to pollution shows us about the health of our planet.

One dandelion - many seeds

Change and the perfect imperfection.

The resilience of the dandelion: A story of hope, change and potential. One dandelion can re-wild a field…

Plant to seed production

Seeds are vital for life on Earth. In this project they are wrapped into a pouch juxtaposed with its plant. They become a metaphor for life itself and the cycle of birth, death and regeneration.

Paper sculptures

Ongoing journey with Japanese paper. Vivienne builds vessels from its delicate layers and brings in fragments of wood, leaves, seeds, and stones she gather from the landscapes around her.

Short films

Botanical meditations – connecting us with nature

Filmmaking

Environmental Storytelling, Documentary

Pollinators

Edible Flowers

What does it mean to eat a flower? A connection between the garden and the kitchen. This project forms part of ongoing research into future foods, extreme weather. A selection of these flower paintings are available as a zine publication.

The Sumie Project

The Current We Share

What The Silence Grew

Atelier Parallel