Botanical Explorer & Natural History Artist and Author
Cheralyn Darcey is an ethnobotanist, botanical history author, and environmental artist who has had a lifelong connection with the spiritual and healing properties of plants. Cheralyn has written eighteen internationally published botanical and gardening titles and lives on the Central Coast of NSW. She is the Community Garden Curator at SWAMP Sustainable Wetlands Agricultural Makers Project) in NSW where she designs and delivers garden systems and educational opportunities for community groups. Cheralyn also produces and hosts a live weekly two-hour gardening radio show At Home with the Gardening Gang on COASTFM963 and writes the weekly Down in the Garden page for Central Coast Newspapers: Coast News, The Coast Chronicle and Newcastle's Novo News.
Illustrator
Deer Dandy aka Céline Le Nezet is a French artist from Brittany and passionate about all things vintage. She graduated with a Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique with honours after five years in EESAB in Quimper. She questioned identity and the power of images through the medium of photography and video performance. After graduation, she started to express herself more freely and got commissioned works from abroad for clothes illustrations and books covers.
Fond of vintage imagery, old film's monsters, and ex votos, she uses antique engravings, paintings and images, from botanical and anatomical plates to Bouguereau’s painting, to create mythological creatures, monsters and illustrations between digital and traditional.
Fascinated by the sacred symbolism, she reuse its terms to give her creations some mystical feel. She sees her art like a catharsis and try to express life, death and its fascinating scary mystery. Nothing is definite, there’s always a renewal lying there somewhere in her art. She loves her cats, birds, butterflies, plants, ancient cameras and finds beauty in decay. And when she quits her den, you will find her loosing herself in the alleys of museums or antic churches, sniffing the dusty air and looking at pretty, gilded icons a bit too close.
A few weeks back Cheralyn and her amazing Community Garden Project team had the most fabulous day at SWAMP hosting a community impact day with support from local organisations and businesses.
Join Cheralyn on her CoastFM Radio and Podcast show 39;The Language of Plants'. This week she was talking all things Drought and how to ensure your garden is ready for next summer. To listen click >> Tips to Drought-Proof Your Garden
Are you a native of Portuguese? Then you'll love this review of Cheralyn Darcey's Magickal Herb Oracle with Natasha, of Sementes da Alma. Walk through the realm of magickal herbs and their botanical and spiritual language.
Ever wanted to stroll through a magickal garden and discover the most precious herbs and plants of the spiritual realm? Have you ever been fascinated by herbal remedies and their healing, spiritual and botanical properties? MavenUnmasked opens the new deck by Cheralyn Darcey and relays her first impressions of this unique and intruiging oracle.
How Do you Find the Best Plants and Flowers for Your Office? Plants and flowers should always be included in workspace environments as they bring what is our natural human daylight living state, the outdoors, to us.
