Winter 25

Rosie  Tonkin

Jess Wheeler

Emily Sutton is an artist and illustrator from the North Yorkshire countryside. Trained at the Edinburgh College of Art, she is celebrated for her intricate style and eye for compelling storytelling.

Her work, which spans painting, printmaking and textiles, has been featured at the V&A, in Bloomsbury books, and at Fortnum & Mason.

For Winter 25, Emily has brought our frozen forest landscape to life using watercolour, ink and cut paper. If you look closely, you can see the cut paper outline of the winter trees.

Emily Sutton is an artist and illustrator from the North Yorkshire countryside. Trained at the reputable Edinburgh College of Art, she is celebrated for her intricate style and eye for compelling storytelling.

Her work, which spans painting, printmaking and textiles, has featured in the V&A, Bloomsbury, and Fortnum & Mason.

For Winter 25,Emily has brought our frozen forest landscape to life, using watercolour, ink and cut paper. If you look closely, you can see the cut paper outline of the winter trees.

Emily Sutton

Florence Sweryda is an artist and maker from East Sussex. For Autumn 24, we approached Florence to create a tunnel book. Popular in the 18th century, a tunnel book is composed of a series of intricately cut-paper panels, layered one behind the other, creating a captivating illusion of depth and perspective.

Autumn 24

Florence Sweryda

Jamie Beck is an American photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Provence. Inspired by the bounty of the
seasons, her still lives are composed with fruits and flowers gathered from the landscape surrounding her home. 

For Autumn 24, Jamie has photographed a quince still life. This piece reflects her interest in the still lives of the Dutch Golden Age and their use of light and shadow.

Jamie Beck is an American photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Provence. Inspired by the bounty of the seasons, her still lives are composed with fruits and flowers gathered from the landscape surrounding her home.

Jamie Beck

Claire Basler is a French artist who specialises in painting flowers. After studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in the Seventies, Claire has spent the forty years since developing her captivating style. Delicately painted plants unfurl across dreamlike backdrops, the brushwork energetic and distinctive. 

For Summer 24, Ffern has been lucky to work with Claire on two works, one on gold leaf for our seasonal poster and one on large-scale panels for Kent Wildflower Seeds' stand at the Chelsea Flower Show. 

Summer 24

Claire Basler is Ffern’s Summer 24 artist. She is a French artist who specialises in painting flowers, and painted an artwork on gold leaf for Ffern’s seasonal poster.

Claire Basler

Anna Higgie was born in Australia and trained at Sydney’s National Art School. Having studied Illustration in London, she now lives and works in Bristol. She combines traditional and digital methods to create her illustrations, which regularly feature in British Vogue. For Spring 24, Anna created a contemporary still life featuring ingredients from the fragrance. Look out for rhubarb, ginger, and Ffern favourite bergamot.

Spring 24

Anna Higgie was born in Australia and trained at Sydney’s National Art School. Having studied Illustration in London, she now lives and works in Bristol. She combines traditional and digital methods to create her illustrations, which regularly feature in British Vogue.

Anna Higgie

Katy Papineau is a figurative painter who lives and works in London. A faculty member at The Royal Drawing School, her colourful painting, drawing and printmaking takes inspiration from folklore, literature and art history.

For Winter 24, Katy has created a self-portrait in response to the Louis MacNeice poem, ‘Snow’, that inspired the season’s fragrance.

Winter 24

Katy Papineau

Colette LaVette’s work is deeply informed by the natural world and mythology, taking a playful approach that engages with tradition through a contemporary painterly language - her organic forms emerge from expressionist mark making in compositions that recall Rococo and Renaissance masters. 

For our Autumn 23 artwork, we wanted to immerse the viewer in our collaborator Julius Roberts’ world. Colette has created a painting alive with the characters we found on Julius’ farm, amid the ingredients of the fragrance - if you look closely you’ll spy his goats, his dog, carrots (complete with roots and flowers), irises, rock rose, geranium, fig leaves, violet leaves and an apple tree...

Autumn 23

Colette LaVette

Cici Lee was born in China but now lives in South Carolina, USA. She was inspired, while on a walk in the countryside of the American South where she now lives, to preserve the beauty of nature - but didn't quite know how. An article about Chinese traditional painting then caught her eye, and she immediately began looking for a teacher. Almost ten years on, her work has been exhibited in major exhibitions in Xiamen and Beijing and she enjoys a global Instagram following. 

In Chinese ink paintings, tradition attaches significance to particular flora and fauna, which when painted together should harmonise. Cici chose to depict the Red-billed Leiothrix bird alongside the osmanthus, as both represent loyalty and faithfulness.

The first two characters 癸卯 (gui mao) of the calligraphy indicate the lunar year 2023. The third 夏 (xia) and fourth 月 (yue) represent the summer season. The fifth 希希 (Xixi, the repetition indicated in the calligraphy by two dots), is the artist’s name in Chinese, which means hope. The final character 寫 (xie) references the style of painting. The red stamp is the traditional way of signing a Chinese painting.


Summer 23

Cici Lee

Alice Boyd is a composer and sound artist based between London and Bristol whose work uses the voice, everyday sounds and electronic textures to tell stories about the world around us. Much of her work explores our relationship with the natural world. Each month, Alice travels to a new place in the UK to collect field recordings for Ffern’s podcast As The Season Turns. She has also recently released her debut EP From The Understory, created as part of her artist residency at the Eden Project - the world’s largest indoor rainforest.

For Spring 23, we invited Alice to write and record a song about spring - capturing that scarcely describable feeling that comes with the new shoots, the joy of things growing in response to the returning sun. Oh These Days has thus far been featured twice on BBC radio, most recently on BBC Introducing the West. 

Spring 23

Alice Boyd is a composer and sound artist based between London and Bristol whose work uses the voice, everyday sounds and electronic textures to tell stories about the world around us. For Spring 23, we invited Alice to write and record a song about spring - capturing that scarcely describable feeling that comes with the new shoots, the joy of things growing in response to the returning sun. Oh These Days has thus far been featured twice on BBC radio, most recently on BBC Introducing the West. 

Alice Boyd

Alex Merry is an artist and illustrator who lives in Stroud, in the western reaches of the Cotswolds. She paints portraits of pets and people, and recently worked for Gucci on their Beauty, Décor and Zumi campaigns. You may recognise Alex from previous Ffern projects - she is a dancer with Boss Morris, with whom we made a beautiful film to accompany our Autumn 22 fragrance, and makes folk beasts for their revels. 

For Spring 23, Alex collaborated with Hanan Issa, Wales' National Poet, to create an artwork for our poster. You can read more about the collaboration below.

Alex Merry is an artist and illustrator who lives in Stroud, in the western reaches of the Cotswolds. She paints portraits of pets and people, and recently worked for Gucci on their Beauty, Décor and Zumi campaigns. You may recognise Alex from previous Ffern projects - she is a dancer with Boss Morris, with whom we made a beautiful film to accompany our Autumn 22 fragrance, and makes folk beasts for their revels.

Alex Merry

Hanan Issa is a Welsh-Iraqi poet, filmmaker and artist from Cardiff, who in 2022 was named the fifth National Poet of Wales. Hanan's poetry collection My Body Can House Two Hearts was published in 2019, and she has since contributed to Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales and The Mab, a retelling of the Mabinogi stories for children. She co-founded the Cardiff open-mic night Where I’m Coming From and worked in the writers’ room for Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts. Hanan was a member of the first cohort of writers who took part in Literature Wales’s Representing Wales programme in 2021.

For Spring 23, Hanan collaborated with illustrator Alex Merry to create an artwork for our poster. 

Hanan Issa is a Welsh-Iraqi poet, filmmaker and artist from Cardiff, who in 2022 was named the fifth National Poet of Wales. Hanan's poetry collection My Body Can House Two Hearts was published in 2019, and she has since contributed to Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales and The Mab, a retelling of the Mabinogi stories for children. She co-founded the Cardiff open-mic night Where I’m Coming From and worked in the writers’ room for Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts. Hanan was a member of the first cohort of writers who took part in Literature Wales’s Representing Wales programme in 2021.

Hanan Issa

Petra Börner is an artist and illustrator from Skåne, Sweden. She has now lived in London for many years, where she studied fashion design at Central St Martins. Her practice centres on illustration but she also works in sculpture, particularly in clay. For Winter 23, we asked her to explore the myth of Holda, an ancient goddess of winter, through hand-cut paper. 


Winter 23

Petra Börner is an artist and illustrator who was born in Skåne, Sweden but has lived in London for many years, where she studied fashion design at Central St Martins. For Winter 23, we asked her to explore the myth of Holda through hand-cut paper. The mirrored illustrations she created find art in simplicity - bold lines shading down to the finer details, much like winter itself. 

Petra Börner

To celebrate Samhain we filmed Boss Morris, an all-female morris group, dancing at dusk and into the night on a beacon in the Cotswolds.

Autumn 22

Boss Morris

Helen Cann is an illustrator and artist based in Brighton. Her speciality is in mapmaking, but she also draws and paints. Her work can be seen regularly at exhibitions around the world and has often featured in films and on television, including His Dark Materials and Howard’s End. To accompany our Golden Tickets, Helen created two limited edition illustrations taking inspiration from the tradition of the embellished compass rose, one for the solstices and one for the equinoxes. 

Helen Cann

Nneka Uzoigwe is a figurative artist who trained at the London Fine Art Studios. For Autumn 22, we asked Nneka to respond to the fragrance’s key ingredients - black tea, grapefruit, herbs. Her composition is detailed yet dreamy; on first glance seeming familiar, but becoming stranger the longer you look. 

Nneka Uzoigwe is a figurative artist who trained at the London Fine Art Studios. For the relase of Ffern's organic eau de parfum Autumn 22, we asked Nneka to respond to the fragrance’s key ingredients - black tea, grapefruit, herbs. Her composition is detailed yet dreamy; on first glance seeming familiar, but becoming stranger the longer you look. 

Nneka Uzoigwe

Giles Deacon is a British couture designer and illustrator whose theatrical designs combine a gothic sensibility with contemporary structures. For Summer 22, we worked with Giles to design a heraldic motif and series of illustrations that would respond to the season’s fragrance and its ingredients.

Giles’ fashion is featured in the permanent collections at the V&A, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; he has been awarded British Designer of the Year. As a costume designer he has worked with the New York City Ballet, Lionsgate and Marvel. Giles’ acclaimed illustrations have been featured by Vogue, Figaro and the Wall Street Journal. 

Summer 22

Giles Deacon is a British couture designer and illustrator whose theatrical designs combine a gothic sensibility with contemporary structures. For the Summer 22 edition of the Ffern Artists series, we worked with Giles to design a heraldic blazon and series of illustrations that would respond to the season’s fragrance and its ingredients. 

Giles Deacon

Lindsay Sekulowicz is an artist and researcher currently undertaking a PhD at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For Spring 22, we asked her to draw from specimens of the fragrance’s central notes, elderflower and gooseberry - for this, she visited Kew’s extensive Herbarium. The artworks she made there are filled with detail, true to life but with the distinctive, delicate style that makes Lindsay’s work so compelling. 

Spring 22

Lindsay Sekulowicz is an artist and researcher currently undertaking a PhD at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For Spring 22, we asked her to draw from specimens of the fragrance’s central notes, elderflower and gooseberry - for this, she visited Kew’s extensive Herbarium. The artworks she made there are filled with detail, true to life but with the distinctive, delicate style that makes Lindsay’s work so compelling.

Lindsay Sekulowicz

Tom Stevenson is a plein air artist based in the South West. He works in oils and paints from life - landscapes, people, skies, the city, the sea. His paintings often stem from a compositional idea or a group of colours, creating a strong sense of place while skilfully walking the line between figurative and abstract. For Winter 22, we asked him to return to Lyme Regis and the Jurassic Coast, where he often works, to make a winter seascape centred around the iconic Cobb.

Winter 22

To mark the release of Ffern's organic eau de parfum Winter 22, we asked plein air artist Tom Stevenson to return to Lyme Regis and the Jurassic Coast, where he often works, to make a winter seascape centred around the iconic Cobb. Sam Finney's accompanying short film explores the landscape of Lyme and Tom's artistic process.

Tom Stevenson

Phoebe Cummings works with raw clay to produce ephemeral pieces that reflect the passage of time. For Autumn 21, we asked her to respond to the same place that inspired this fragrance - Ruan Lanihorne, Cornwall. Phoebe's sculpture echoes the abundant water that runs through this landscape, its mutability embracing the seasonal changes that inform Ffern fragrance making.

Autumn 21

To accompany the Ffern organic fragranc Autumn 21, we asking sculptor and artist Phoebe Cummings to respond to the same place that inspired this fragrance - Ruan Lanihorne, Cornwall. Phoebe's sculpture echoes the abundant water that runs through this landscape, its mutability embracing the seasonal changes that inform Ffern fragrance making. Sam Finney's accompanying short film explores Phoebe's process.

Phoebe Cummings

To accompany our Autumn 21 film, ‘The Road to Ruan Lanihorne’, Ffern commissioned the cellist and composer George Lloyd-Owen to create an original score. Centring around improvised cello refrains, George’s work incorporates organic sounds and reaches for a meditative tone - the perfect accompaniment to our slow footage along the lanes to Ruan Lanihorne, Cornwall, the place that inspired our Autumn 21 fragrance.

To accompany Ffern’s Autumn 21 film, ‘The Road to Ruan Lanihorne’, the cellist and composer George Lloyd-Owen was commissioned to create an original score. Centring around improvised cello refrains, George’s work incorporates organic sounds and reaches for a meditative tone - the perfect accompaniment to our slow footage along the Cornish lanes that inspired the Autumn 21 organic fragrance.

George Lloyd-Owen

To mark the summer solstice and the launch of our latest release, we commissioned the visual artist Nicola Yeoman to create a sculpture from natural materials. The result is an 8 foot high wooden structure, crowned with an orb made from hay - an ingredient we have used in Summer 21 for the first time. Into the hay, Nicola wove ribbons, flowers and feathers. On a summer evening in early June we set it alight. This short film captures the making and the burning.

Summer 21

To mark the summer solstice and the launch of Ffern's organic fragrance Summer 21, we commissioned the visual artist Nicola Yeoman to create a sculpture from natural materials. The result was an 8 foot high wooden structure, crowned with an orb made from hay - an ingredient in Summer 21. Into the hay, Nicola wove ribbons, flowers and feathers. On a summer evening in early June we set it alight, with Sam Finney documenting the process in a short film.

Nicola Yeoman

As part of the Ffern Artists series, we have worked with the natural-dye artist Daisy Gray to create a limited run of silk handkerchiefs. The handkerchiefs are handwoven from ethical silk by a co-operative of artisans in West Bengal, India and hand-dyed by Daisy using walnut leaves, madder root and goldenrod. Daisy has chosen these colours as a reflection of an English greenhouse - the inspiration behind Spring 21.

Spring 21

As part of the Ffern Artists series, natural-dye artist Daisy Gray created a limited run of handwoven ethical silk handkerchiefs. These were hand-dyed by Daisy using walnut leaves, madder root and goldenrod, reflecting the greenhouse theme of Ffern's organic eau de parfum, Spring 21. Sam Finney's accompanying short film explores Daisy's process. Proceeds from the handkerchiefs were donated to Khalsa Aid to support communities in India through Covid-19.  

Daisy Gray

The painter Will Calver is the second in our series. In response to Winter 21, Will painted a still life in oils, depicting a branch of silver birch and a Sicilian lemon. Both these ingredients play a key role in the fragrance, which was inspired by the unique quality of the air in the Scottish Highlands.

Winter 21

Painter Will Calver is the second Ffern Artist. In response to Ffern's organic fragrance Winter 21, Will painted a still life in oils, depicting a branch of silver birch and a Sicilian lemon. Both these ingredients play a key role in the fragrance, which was inspired by the unique quality of the air in the Scottish Highlands. Sam Finney's accompanying short film explores Will's process and inspiration.

Will Calver

To begin the series, we asked Lauren Emily Wilson to respond to Autumn 20. The result is an ethereal family of pastel drawings that capture the evolution of a scent.

Autumn 20

For the first in the Ffern Artists series, we asked Lauren Emily Wilson to respond to our Autumn 20 organic fragrance. The result is an ethereal family of pastel drawings that capture the evolution of a scent. Sam Finney's accompanying short film maps the development of the drawings and explores the fragrance's inspiration: petrichor.