My work begins with plants and flowers and an interest in the different ways we collect, identify, classify and preserve the natural world. My current work focuses on botanical bas-relief casting, using real flowers and plants to make sculptural impressions in plaster. I arrange these into panels, grids and larger installations, often cropping, repeating or repositioning sections of a plant. I’m interested in the contrast between the order of botanical collections, taxonomy, colour charts and other systems of classification, and the unpredictability of the plants themselves. In my Deconstructed series, I look at individual species across a number of casts, cropping and repositioning different parts of the plant at changing angles. Imperfections are an important part of my work. I keep broken stems, wilting flowers, incomplete impressions and signs of decay rather than removing them. The structure and order come from the way I arrange the finished work, rather than from trying to make the plants themselves look perfect. My earlier work used pressed flowers, paint and modular forms, and this continues to influence my interest in repetition, preservation and how we organise the natural world.