A Manchester Story

During the summer of 2020, through a collaborative online Creativity & Wellbeing project at university I developed my own individual project inspired by nature.

I wanted to label the plants and flowers around the area of Ancoats where I am currently based, encouraging people to take notice of the small but beautiful things around them.

I created signs using pieces of recycled wood and jute string, writing on them with colourful Posca pens. I used them to label the brilliant wildflowers in Cotton Field Park, and some interesting plants along the Ashton Canal.

It was here that I started documenting my project and my journey with plants and wellbeing on an Instagram account called @jardin.de.lenore. This means ' Garden of Lenore', I chose this because I have always adored the romantic sound of the French language, to me it sounds like a hidden or secret paradise. And Lenore comes from when a Spanish teacher once called me Lenor, which I thought was beautiful - I think it's quite fun and lovely when people get my name wrong and interpret it in their own language or culture.