A leading landscape architect and horticulturalist with a reputation for creating beautiful regenerative landscapes often in sensitive places, Marian is known for her thoughtful and contextual design approach. She works with the land, the people and local materials to discover and develop the special and the important in each project. From flood plain restoration to farmstead creation, respect for the ecology, the history and the future inform her thinking and the studio’s designs, which she leads at all stages.

Marian writes and speaks on regenerative design and began by specialising in historic landscapes. She was a lecturer in Historic Garden Conservation at Greenwich University for several years and is advisor to several historic estates, land owners and land stewards. A Fellow of the Landscape Institute and Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers she is a former Director of the British Association of Landscape Industries and of the Blackthorn Trust biodynamic healing garden. Marian is also co-founder of the naissant Sustainable Landscape Foundation. Her projects invest in the land for the very long term, as with the Charleston centenary project, whilst others include strong installations in a sensitive landscape as at The Watts Gallery, or blending new and old landscapes as at Tillingham winery. Kindness is a deeply embedded ethos: Marian works with the way the land can heal and connect us on all levels; in February 2020 she gave a TedX talk on how our gardens can care for us and the earth, in 2019 she was awarded the Garden Columnist of the Year and her book Sustainable Garden was shortlisted for Garden Book of the Year in 2022. She has won many awards but is most interested in the long term legacy of the studio’s work.

Marian has a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Greenwich University and a Masters in Modern Languages from Oxford University. Her first career was as an international management consultant. She loves sunrises and sunsets, wild swimming and ski touring in remote areas.