About Dilly:
Dilly has worked as both a landscape architect and illustrator and has recently completed a master’s in Applied Ecology. She has an in-depth understanding of natural processes, ecosystem services, and regenerative farming. Dilly has a skill for interpreting and explaining complex ecological and environmental issues through hand-drawn illustrations. Her clients include local authorities, Community Land Trusts, education trusts, and regenerative farms.
Illustration and exhibitions:
1993 Stroud District Council, Ebley Mill - Exhibition of storm water management using reed beds
1993 Caoley Mill - exhibition about hydro power commissioned by Ossie Goring
1994 New View of the Horsley Valley - exhibition at Ruskin Mill for the Nailsworth festival, showing future development for a fish farm and wooded valley
1994 Permaculture Magazine - illustration for an article about small garden permaculture
1995 Resurgence Magazine – illustration for an article about holistic water management
1996 Ruskin Mill Trust – The Woodland Year Calendar
1997 The Genius Loci of the Stroud Valleys – an exhibition at Ruskin Mill showing the changes to the landscape since the Neolithic age
1997 Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall – illustrations for a book ‘Gardening Made Easy’
1998 The Hiram Trust - bread-making interpretation poster
2007 Ruskin Mill Trust -Market Garden Year
2010 National Trust – climate change research and commissioning of a fine artist for an exhibition ‘A Plant in Time’
2011 and 2015 Gloucester City Council – interpretation boards for Sustainable Urban Drainage
2013 J bodi natturunnas – Illustration for an article about Permaculture
2016 South Gloucestershire Council – illustration for The Forgotten Landscapes project
2019 Oakbrook Farm - birds eye view of the community land trust farm for the launch of a community share offer
2021 Oakbrook Farm Haven - leaflet for walk from Stroud, for 'Nature Play Days'
2021 Apricot Centre - large magnetic birds-eye view to locate where children are when visiting the farm
2021 Hawthorn Press – illustration for the book - Designing Regenerative Food Systems
2021 - 2025- Gloucester City Council - illustrations for sustainable drainage and flood relief schemes
2023 - Gloucester Wildlife Trust - birds-eye view of the proposed 'Gloucester Nature Park'
2024 - Oakbrook Farm - interpretation panels for the community land trust tenants, including the Stroud CSA, the Micro Dairy, Orchard and Zero Dig
2025 - Sapperton Wilder - Artwork for interpretation panels
2026 - Sapperton Wilder - artwork and text for the 'Past, Present and Future' website story