Nina has a long standing love of nature and the environment and a curiosity for "how it all fits together". This manifested itself in earlier life as a research scientist in London, but she then changed direction, retraining as a botanical artist to share her passion for native trees and often overlooked wild flowers. She was Garden Artist in Residence at the Royal College of Physicians in 2015, expanding her interest in the science and history of medicinal plants. Moving her sights west, eventually she landed in the Usk Valley, exploring through her art the natural landscape and our centuries old relationship with it.
Her inspiration for this exhibition comes from discovering local poet and doctor, Henry Vaughan, and his love of and deep seated connection with the natural world of the Usk Valley. This series of watercolours is of wild plants with medicinal uses going back to the Physicians of Myddfai that can be found along the paths perhaps walked on by Henry Vaughan in his musings and wanderings all that time ago.
