As the daughter of a well-known naturalist, and botanical illustrator I have been immersed in the unique flora that is Western Australia's  heritage for as long as I can remember. We had acres of beautiful wildflowers on our farm as well as the verges of the country roads we regularly travelled. I studied botany as  part of a teaching degree and the obligatory overseas years saw me enrolling at the Chelsea Institute in London in the 1960s while researching Australian plants at Kew and the Natural History Museum. My interest in the minutiae of nature has never waned but it has only been recently with the research to write the book A Joy Forever: The Story of Kings Park that I have turned my attention to our colourful wildflowers as a subject for my jewellery. Few of the jewellery pieces are literal translations. They are instead evocations of the colour, form or habit of individual species.

Sourcing the wonderful variety of colours available in precious and semi-precious stones has meant uncovering a palette capable of evoking our precious and endangered heritage.