Kyra Powell from Kynuka is putting her family farm in Herfordshire to a new use. Rather than the usual harvest, Kyra grows, picks, dries and presses flowers in the farm's cottage garden before turning them into orginal pieces of art. 

Originally trained as a cabinet maker, designing bespoke coffins ("something that’s always a good conversation starter... or stopper, dependant on the company,") Kyra found that being involved in the furniture manufacturing world didn’t sit comfortably for many reasons – from the amount of waste involved, the lack of traceability of materials, greenwashing, materialism and over-consumption of our planet’s virgin materials. This led her to set up a creative business creating botanical art, with as small an eco-footprint as possible. 

"It’s very important to me to ensure my products have a traceability throughout every process, that they do not have a detrimental effect on the environment and that they waste as little of our planet’s precious commodities as possible. I believe in a circular economy and therefore all my products are made from natural, biodegradable or recycled materials."