EVOLUTION

sM | Did you begin as a florist that evolved into a visual artist, or the other way around?

RLL ── I studied Fine Art and began my practice as a painter but the discovery of installation art allowed me to explore the boundaries of painting outside of the canvas. I like to think of my work as ‘painting in the air’ where the viewer can enter into the painting, swapping my paints with flowers and my canvas with the space. I made my first installation with flowers in 2003 and I have been learning about my medium ever since. Working with natural materials has allowed me to explore the fragility of our human relationship with nature. I have tried to preserve every flower that I have sculpted with since I began my practice.