Sonya Patel Ellis: The Earth Laughs in Flowers

Floral cuttings hover in suspended glory, deceased yet striking in writer and illustrated book editor Sonya Patel Ellis’s herbarium display. Devising a traditional botanical press to seize collected specimens from her garden, flowers and plants remain in a perpetual state of serenity. Accompanied with other mixed media works, Ellis’s fascination for the taxonomy and etymology of all things horticultural is poetically enlightening in our age of digitised pursuits.