Rachel Dein, Studio Visit. Hampsted, London

Rachel Dein makes beautiful and evocative plaster casts of plants and flowers that record all their texture, pattern, and delicacy in exquisite details. A visit to her North London Studio for discussions around custom collaborations showcased pendulous bleeding hearts, curly fiddleheads of ferns, and wispy poppies, which are some of her favorite flowers to cast. There is a memorial as well as a celebratory quality to these simple tiles and panels, preserving a fleeting moment of glory long after the plants have faded and died.