Gavin Francis Stoneystreet

Gavin’s work explores the ways artists, gardeners, and creatives have tended their relationship with the botanical world across time and disciplines. His PhD with the University of Bath focused on Artists’ Gardens and their relationship to the public as places of pilgrimage.

He enjoys opportunities for collaborative integrative approaches to supporting the relationship between people and the botanical world. He has written Heritage Garden conservation plans, including for William Morris’s Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, alongside freelance writing, creative writing, and works for publication. His writing and multidisciplinary art seeks to engage with botany, weaving in his many interests including Art, Literature, Poetry, Japanese Arts and Gardens, the Arts & Crafts movement, Birds, Esoterica, and relationship to place. His ongoing work looks to engage with the potential of the current vegetal moment and explore how the arts are pointing the way for recovering our damaged relationship with nature.

Gavin is an Edge-Walker, seeing kinship in Magpie, Fox, and Willow-Herb. He lives in the Welsh Marches, seeking out either untrodden pathways or good coffee.