I first photographed Nicola all the way back in January 2016, the fourth shoot in this project.And to be honest I should have shared these months ago, I shot them back in July........ but as with so many creatives I know, post covid, post lockdowns, it's been a real struggle...Work has changed, or disappeared, routines have had to be broken, revisions and adjustments made, what was once normal is now alien.I've been taking some down time through the summer, some of it enforced, some it planned but I think I'm starting to understand a route forward, but please bare with me, its seems to be a slow, non-linear process.Back to Nicola, she no longer works at "The Big House", so the shoot was in her garden right here in Malmesbury, a wonderful and tranquil space, well at 1930 in the evening when there isn't 1500 children over the other side of the fence!

Nicola is now not just working with plants in a mud under the fingernails way but also designing and consulting on gardens for her clients, https://www.facebook.com/NicolaHopeGardener

But the most animated conversation was definatly the one on growing tomatoes, a shared passion we have, and I left with Greenhouse envy.