Herbarium is an ongoing body of work that explores the intimate dialogue between the human spirit and the vegetal world. Neither a botanical catalogue nor a scientific archive, it is a living collection of encounters—an evolving ecosystem where plants become storytellers and every page preserves the memory of a fleeting moment in nature.
Gathered during walks through forests, gardens, meadows, and forgotten paths, leaves, flowers, grasses, and seeds are welcomed into the studio as collaborators rather than subjects. Their forms, textures, and delicate structures generate each composition through processes that honour the direct imprint of nature: botanical monoprint, gel plate printing, frottage, cyanotype, intaglio printmaking, embroidery, drawing, and hand-bound textile artist’s books. Every technique reveals a different aspect of the plant, allowing its presence to emerge through touch as much as through image.
Herbarium is an ongoing research on plants as living archives.
Botanical forms are collected not to classify nature, but to reveal its continuous transformation. Prints on handmade paper, textile, and clay preserve the delicate encounter between organic matter and human gesture.
These artist’s books do not document plants; they accompany them. Leaves, fibres, pigments, and impressions become fragments of a shared ecology where memory is rooted in material.
Each page is both specimen and landscape, inviting a slower way of looking—one that recognises the quiet intelligence of growing, decaying, and returning.
For me, the herbarium is an act of listening. It is a slow ritual of collecting, observing, printing, stitching, and preserving—a practice that resists the accelerated rhythm of contemporary life. The repetitive gestures of the hand become a form of meditation, while each print and each thread records not only the physical trace of a plant but also the invisible imprint of time, place, and emotion.
Many of the materials used in these works carry their own histories: recycled papers, fragments of notebooks, old letters, fabrics, handmade fibres, and found objects are layered alongside botanical impressions, creating new relationships between natural and human memory. What once belonged to everyday life is transformed into a poetic archive where the boundaries between nature and culture gently dissolve.
These artist’s books are conceived as intimate landscapes to be experienced slowly. Turning their pages becomes an act of walking through an imaginary garden, where every leaf is a fragment of memory, every stitch a gesture of care, and every imprint a reminder of the profound interconnectedness of all living being.
Rather than preserving plants as static specimens, Herbarium celebrates their continuous transformation. Growth, decay, fragility, resilience, and regeneration become metaphors for the human condition, revealing that our own stories unfold according to the same invisible rhythms that shape forests, rivers, seasons, and seeds.
Ultimately, Herbarium is an invitation to rediscover wonder in the smallest details of the natural world. It asks us to slow down, to observe with patience, and to recognise that every leaf carries within it a map of life—a quiet universe where memory, ecology, art, and imagination are inseparably woven together.