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From left to right: Philip McMillan Browse, Mally Francis, Carol Trewin and David Chapman.
PHILIP McMILLAN BROWSE
Philip is a horticultural consultant, and has been Director of the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation in California, and Director of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden at Wisley. He was the first Horticultural Director of The Lost Gardens of Heligan, and is one of the originators of The Eden Project.
Philip is author of our books Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs, and Heligan Survivors, and General Editor of Gardening on the Edge: Drawing on the Cornwall Experience. He has also written on plant propagation, palms for cooler climates, and vegetables.
TONY BUTT
Tony is a big wave specialist based in the Basque Country, and Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is a regular contributor to European surfing magazines, and author of our bestselling book Surf Science. His new book The Surfer's Guide to Waves, Coasts and Climates was published in 2009. Tony runs a wave prediction website, swell-forecast.
DAVID CHAPMAN
David is the author of two of our most recent books, Penwith Moods and Wild about Cornwall. He came to Cornwall in 1992 to teach, but has since developed a career as a wildlife and landscape photographer and writer. He says that ‘Cornwall has changed my life. Its places; its people; its communities; its environment; its history and its wildlife are all so deeply intertwined that they create a blend of unparalleled county loyalty, belonging and passion. My own involvement in this mix has always been most strongly rooted in the world of nature – and what a rich tapestry of natural wonders this county has to offer.’
David's articles can be seen in a wide range of publications, and his photography graces the pages of a multitude of magazines, newspapers, books and calendars. David is committed to protecting wildlife in the county, and is a trustee of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
Further details of his work can be found on his website.
MALLY FRANCIS
Mally Francis was working as a speech therapist in Leicester when, on holiday in Cornwall, she visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan, and noticed a rusty ‘For Sale’ sign hanging over a wall. ‘What bliss it would be to live there,’ she thought … and little more than a year later, she was! The house was the former wagon house of the Heligan estate, and soon the sawpit had been converted into a studio, for Mally was keen to pursue her passion for botanical illustration. She had studied under Anne-Marie Evans, and is a Fellow of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society. She also founded the Eden Project Florilegium Society. Her exquisite botanical paintings are featured in Heligan Days: A Perpetual Diary.
Mally now runs her own classes in botanical illustration in the sawpit studio. She and her husband, photographer Charles Francis, offer bed and breakfast in The Wagon House.
MAURICE SMELT
Author of our hugely popular 101 Cornish Lives, Maurice was born in Borneo. He ‘came home’ at seven and was an Exhibitioner of Sherborne School and Major Scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He seemed fated for academia but escaped into advertising and became creative director of his agency. Having helped to set up Writers in Business, a specialist company that scripted anything from political speeches to multimedia extravaganzas, he moved to Cornwall in 1984 to do the same sort of thing less frenetically. He was a partner in Write by the Sea, which offered very intensive courses in Penwith for writers of every kind. He was contributing editor of What Advertising Is, and edited A Wealth of Talent in the ‘In Pursuit of Excellence’ series. He has been both Honorary Librarian and Chairman of Morrab Library, and now lives in Penzance with his wife and daughter.
CAROL TREWIN
Carol is the author of our bestselling books Gourmet Cornwall and
Cornish Fishing and Seafood, both of which won her the prestigious Gourmand English-UK Awards. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards are regarded as the Oscars of the food and drink books, with 34 categories for food books and 14 categories for wine books. Previous winners in English include Rick Stein and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Until her death in 2009, Carol was Food Editor of the Western Morning News, and an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies. She enjoyed a long and distinguished career in agricultural and food journalism. She was editor of Radio 4’s Farming Today, and worked for BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme, Woman’s Hour and the BBC World Service. Other farming, food and environmental programmes that she produced include On Your Farm, Costing the Earth, Walston Goes Walkabout, and Over the Counter. Carol was Farming Editor of the Western Morning News, and later joined the regional food group Taste of the West to set up and run a £3 million food and drink project in Cornwall. Here she was responsible for the Trade Development Programme, raising the profile and use of Cornish food and drink locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. She wrote on farming, food and the countryside for many publications, including Food Illustrated, The Field, British Farmer and Grower, Inside Cornwall, food and Devon Today. She was particularly interested in food politics and history and the links between food, farming and the landscape.
ADAM WOOLFITT
A photographer most of his life, Adam photographed Gourmet Cornwall and
Cornish Fishing and Seafood. Before that, he contributed to the National Geographic and other leading magazines for 30 years. He writes on digital photography for the British Journal of Photography, Image Magazine, and Photo District News in New York. He was Chairman of, and on the Council of, the Association of Photographers, and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers.
See some of Adam's work at Adam Woolfitt Photography.
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