Flora Gathorne-Hardy is a geographer, landscape architect & artist. After studying geography at Cambridge University, she went on to complete a doctoral thesis in community design, studying as a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Design.
Her research lead to a Landscape Diploma at the University of Central England after which she worked on a wide range of projects between Liverpool and London. This included both policy research & community design schemes. It was during this time as a part-time gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden that she discovered her passion for plants.
On moving to Oxford, Flora founded Topio, an ecological research & landscape design practice. Since 2009, she has been based on an organic farm, where her practice has been enlivened by a deepening relationship with nature. This has also been a time for the evolution of new forms of collaborative enquiry with artist & researcher Miche Fabre Lewin.