About

Flora And Tide

Jill Cowdry

I studied photography at Cambridge Regional College and later joined the women’s collective CamIris, exhibiting work in several spaces including the Museum of Zoology. Drawn to the quiet magic of the darkroom, I found my true medium in cyanotype—where sunlight, chemistry, and time move together in a kind of tide.

Sometimes I work by the sea, gathering seaweed and coastal botanicals, allowing tidal rhythms and saltwater environments to shape the final images.

Now living in Wales on thirty acres of wildflower meadows with my artist husband and our dog, Fennel, my practice is shaped by the land that surrounds me. I gather and press plants, expose them under open skies, and develop them in water baths aligned with the lunar cycles that guide my days. I live closely with these rhythms—waxing, waning, resting, rising—and my work becomes a reflection of that slow, cyclical way of being. Each piece is an offering to nature’s patterns, a conversation between the earth, the moon, and the moment of light that captures them.