Carol Sharp
Flower Photographer
Carol Sharp's inspiring images embody her vision - to reconnect people with plants and rekindle our emotional bond with nature.
She has a unique and special appreciation of light as her paint, which, with her design knowledge and her love of shapes and colours, resonates through all of her work.
Her career began when, after leaving Brighton Art College with a first class degree in Visual Communication, Carol honed her image-making skills by assisting top London still life photographers.
Carol has now been working as a successful professional photographer for 18 years from her central London studio and her images have been widely published, including Chelsea Flower Show posters and two sets of Royal Mail stamps.
Eleven years ago, finding no picture library right for her specialist creative floral images, she set up Flowerphotos, now widely recognised as the country's foremost source of creative images of flowers and plants. Flowerphotos represents Carol's stock, as well as images she selects from over 70 other photographers.
In 2001 her deep botanical knowledge led her to conceive a series of books published by Conran Octopus. Entitled 'From Bud to Seed', Carol chose ten iconic plants that were fascinating in all life stages and photographed each stage in exquisite detail to reveal a beauty and character unseen by the naked eye. She designed an acclaimed stand for displaying her books at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2001, displaying beautifully lit plants behind a wall in which she set large magnifying glasses, giving the audience a chance to look 'through the lens'.
2005 highlighted a new talent when Carol was asked to be Director of a TV commercial for RHS shows Hampton Court and Tatton Park, supervising the script, props and lighting and overseeing the editing.
More recently Carol has created products from her collection of images using both colour and form including canvases, cushions, deckchairs and lamps which are sold in handpicked outlets.
2007 started with Carol launching a charitable fund, called Greener Image, to provide a simple method whereby those who profit by using plants in imagery can contribute to charities that fund positive uses of plants and ensure their survival.
Recently Carol won a Judge's Choice Award in the AOP Open 2007 exhibition, with a striking image of a thistle - one of only seven awarded from over 1,700 entries.
Carol Sharp's inspiring images embody her vision - to reconnect people with plants and rekindle our emotional bond with nature.
She has a unique and special appreciation of light as her paint, which, with her design knowledge and her love of shapes and colours, resonates through all of her work.
Her career began when, after leaving Brighton Art College with a first class degree in Visual Communication, Carol honed her image-making skills by assisting top London still life photographers.
Carol has now been working as a successful professional photographer for 18 years from her central London studio and her images have been widely published, including Chelsea Flower Show posters and two sets of Royal Mail stamps.
Eleven years ago, finding no picture library right for her specialist creative floral images, she set up Flowerphotos, now widely recognised as the country's foremost source of creative images of flowers and plants. Flowerphotos represents Carol's stock, as well as images she selects from over 70 other photographers.
In 2001 her deep botanical knowledge led her to conceive a series of books published by Conran Octopus. Entitled 'From Bud to Seed', Carol chose ten iconic plants that were fascinating in all life stages and photographed each stage in exquisite detail to reveal a beauty and character unseen by the naked eye. She designed an acclaimed stand for displaying her books at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2001, displaying beautifully lit plants behind a wall in which she set large magnifying glasses, giving the audience a chance to look 'through the lens'.
2005 highlighted a new talent when Carol was asked to be Director of a TV commercial for RHS shows Hampton Court and Tatton Park, supervising the script, props and lighting and overseeing the editing.
More recently Carol has created products from her collection of images using both colour and form including canvases, cushions, deckchairs and lamps which are sold in handpicked outlets.
2007 started with Carol launching a charitable fund, called Greener Image, to provide a simple method whereby those who profit by using plants in imagery can contribute to charities that fund positive uses of plants and ensure their survival.
Recently Carol won a Judge's Choice Award in the AOP Open 2007 exhibition, with a striking image of a thistle - one of only seven awarded from over 1,700 entries.
