Young designers battle it out at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show
‘Colour’ is the theme of the gardens by three young designers who are all bidding to take the title of RHS Young Designer of the Year, by impressing the judges with their garden designs at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show.
Tristen Knight, Andrew Percival, and Katharine Will each received £12,000 from the RHS towards building their garden at Tatton Park.
This year’s brief was ‘colour’.
Andrew’s Percival’s ‘subversive pigments: articulating the DAYnight’ focuses on the colour differences of a garden in daylight and at night under the amber glow of sodium lighting.
Andrew (25), is based in Northwich, near Tatton Park, and is looking forward to the Tatton experience opening up new career doors. He is a qualified chartered landscape architect and has been working for a practice in North Wales for the past two years. This is the second permanent position he has held since finishing university and he has found working with established companies really helpful from a mentoring and experience viewpoint.
Katherine Will’s design, entitled a ‘A Prison Garden for Rehabilitation through Wellbeing’ explores the idea that colour can affect mood. Although there is no scientific study to reinforce the concept, it is generally accepted that certain colours are more calming than others, so there’s lots of green, and light indigo blues and then uplifting spots of yellow.
‘Exposure at Tatton will help me launch my business, through meeting people and networking,’ she says.
Katherine (25) finished her design course last summer and has been working part-time with an established design company in London, while setting up her own business. ‘The experience and support you get from working with someone else has been invaluable,’ says Katherine.
Tristen Knight says: ‘I tried to put a twist on the brief, so my design, Brownfield Beauty, was inspired by brownfield sites, like Battersea Power Station.’ This design proves that these forgotten and unloved spaces can be resurrected to become gardens of great distinction and beauty. Tristen is using decaying and reclaimed materials to achieve this.
‘Being a finalist in the competition has given me confidence to know what I can achieve as well as credibility; getting this far is really exciting so any further will be a massive bonus.’
Tristen (28) has worked for Aralia Garden Design for the last four years and is helping them this year with their ‘Rooftop Workplace’ show garden. He studied industrial design at Loughborough University before completing a garden design diploma at Writtle
The competition, run in association with the Society of Garden Designers, is open to students, as well as new and established designers, aged 28 and under.
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