Description
Landscape Designer specialising in watercolour garden plans of proposed gardens and illustrated recordings of existing gardens or country estates. Catherine has been working for over 30 years and has extensive experience in both gardens and mapping.
PROFILE
Catherine has over 30 years' experience working as a landscape designer and an estate cartographer. She feels it is a privilege to be involved in creating gardens or recording them for posterity.
Having visited and worked in some of the finest gardens in the world, Catherine brings a unique perspective to her work. Her understanding of three dimensional spaces, combined with her drafting and design skills, bring her watercolour mapping and garden designs to life.
Catherine works from her design studio in the Southern Highlands of NSW but has clients Australia-wide and internationally. Catherine’s estate maps are considered fine art pieces. They involve hundreds of hours of research, recording and intricate watercolour techniques. She collaborates with a team of associates, as necessary, when landscape designing
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Catherine has been designing a diversity of gardens and landscapes in Australia since 1987. Her experience ranges from contemporary courtyard designs, restoring historic country gardens to large acreage with lakes and waterfalls.
Catherine has a sensitivity to the Australian climatic conditions which brings an underlying logic to her landscape designs. Consideration of the architecture, sight lines, sun, shade, soil etc and all the elements a client has on their wish list, are skilfully handled in her designs.
Great landscape design is an investment into the future value of your property. The correct placement of expensive items such as swimming pools and tennis courts is essential to avoid wasting large sums of money. Catherine collaborates with pool builders, landscapers, earth movers, rock wallers and horticulturalists.
She offers a comprehensive design service including:
- SITE SURVEYS: on site consultations and site analysis, scaled drawings of existing conditions
- CONCEPTUAL PLANNING: implementing your brief and producing initial plans and design solutions
- MASTER PLANS: fully scaled and coloured with hard landscaping and planting suggestions
- PLANTING PLANS: detailed planting schedules for whole garden or selected areas
DESIGN INQUIRIES
ESTATE CARTOGRAPHY
In Europe, during the 16th century, estate owners began to commission map-makers to record their property boundaries, buildings and gardens. Catherine O’Neill brings the ancient highly-specialised art form into the 21st century.
Combining her unique set of skills as a landscape designer, graphic designer and watercolour artist, Catherine accurately maps and records historic, iconic or simply much loved gardens.
These extensive, yet sensitive works of art are intended for framing and display. They will become valuable records of social history, treasured family heirlooms and make the most individual and exquisite gifts.
Catherine has recorded properties ranging in size from hundreds of acres to courtyard gardens. All her works are produced on handmade French watercolour paper, using archival English watercolour paint.
COMMISSION ENQUIRIES
POOL DESIGN
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