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Lichen, North Wales, UK. Digital Photo. 2024

August Garden. View of Wildflower patch with fruit trees, vegetable and cut flower beds and greenhouse. 2024.

As someone who’s moved about and lived in many dwellings since early childhood, I have often felt displaced and unsettled.

North Wales has been my santuary since 2020. After living through cancer and being diagnosed for the second time only a month after the first treatment, I realised that I needed the comfort of being back in my home country. I was living in New York at the time but I felt a strong urge to return to the UK. A year after the treatment finished, my family and I embarked on a highly stressful and messy transatlantic relocation…smack bang in the middle of the Pandemic.

Nature has been a constant in my life. A friend that I’ve turned to in times of need, wellbeing and reflection. There are no judgements. A primal and unadulterated bond between myself and the natural world around me is a symbiotic connection that continues to nourish my existence.

Living in the rural countryside has it’s challenges, and our humble farmhouse that’s centuries old is in need of a lot of repair and improvement. The garden is major project too. We’re converting it from a small patch of field to a useable area of land for growing ornamental plants, seasonal fruit and veg. It’s a modest life we live, but it’s honest.

This truly is home, and I belong here.