Hi, I'm Esther

I never set out to run a tidy business. I started with succulents, and I kept going because I couldn't stop picking up branches. A piece of grapewood would come home with me and sit on the bench until I figured out what it wanted to be. That is still, honestly, the whole method.

What I make now is a lot more than just a plant in a planter. It's real moss, real fern, real wood, real elements — naturally preserved so it keeps its color and texture and never asks anything of you. But I don't think that's the reason people keep one. I think they keep it because it's the only one.

I learn by messing up

The more I mess up, the better I learn. I've glued things that shouldn't have been glued, sourced moss that turned out wrong, and told a client a date I couldn't hit. Every one of those is in the work now, in the sense that I don't do them anymore. I'd rather tell you that than pretend the studio runs on some flawless proprietary system.

My kids are in this

My kids help. They hand me bark, they work the low-temp glue gun under supervision, they have strong opinions about where the fern goes. Sometimes they're right. This is a family workspace, not a warehouse, and if that shows in the pieces, good.

Raw, unfiltered relationships

I don't want a transactional business. I want to know what room your piece is going in and who's going to sit in front of it. I'll tell you honestly if what you're asking for won't work, and I'll tell you when I've gotten something wrong on my end. That's the relationship on offer. It's the part of this I care most about.

Nature is beautiful in so many different ways, just like us. Your art should be as unique as nature itself.

How I actually build a piece