Speaker Biography
Jinny Blom is a leading garden designer and landscape architect who, since establishing her London-based landscape design practice in 2000, has created hundreds of much-lauded gardens all over the world. She has designed four award-winning gardens for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including her ‘Healing Garden’ developed in collaboration with King Charles III, has been a columnist for The Times and in 2002 won BBC Radio Broadcaster of the Year for her Radio 4 Woman’s Hour features. Jinny has been nominated Woman of the Year an unprecedented three times for her services to society including her role as Artist in Residence at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
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Host Biography
Angela Palmer is a Scottish sculptor with work in the permanent collections of international museums including the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington; the Science Museum, London; the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Mapping is at the core of her work, which investigate deep time and geology and invariably involve the collaboration of multi-disciplinary scientists worldwide.
