Lost Kingdom

Lost Kingdom is an imagined world of wild flora and discovery.

It began with a simple question: what would grow in a place left entirely to itself? A landscape untouched, overgrown and alive with its own logic. From that starting point emerged a world of imagined flowers, shapes inspired by nature but carried further by instinct and imagination. Familiar at first glance, but impossible on closer inspection.

The work unfolded gradually. Sketches of leaves and petals grew into layered compositions, with colour building depth and movement across the surface. The landscapes became dense and immersive, drawing the eye through light and shadow, with detail revealed slowly over time.

From within this larger world came the botanical studies. A pause within the wildness. Individual flowers were drawn out, observed and named as if newly discovered. These plates echo the order and clarity of eighteenth-century botanical illustration, while remaining entirely imagined. The contrast between the richness of the landscapes and the precision of the studies became central to the chapter.

Lost Kingdom marks a shift in how the studio works. Moving from collections to chapters, and from individual pieces to worlds that unfold over time. This story will continue to reveal itself through the year ahead. But this is where it begins.