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Antonia Couling is the founder and director of Felicity Garden Design and is a qualified garden designer and garden historian and a certified horticulturist.

Antonia grew up in London, but was born in Rome and comes from a family made up of several nationalities. This international background has informed her design journey over the years. Antonia has a special interest in the well-being potential of gardens and gardening and her passion for history led to a Masters in Garden and Landscape History at the Institute of Historical Research at University College London. She has recently compiled a research paper on the contested history of London’s green spaces and is writing a book on the history of Gladstone Park.

“The joy that gardens can give us is the inspiration behind the name ‘Felicity’ Garden Design. Gardens possess the magic to transport and lift us as human beings. A garden that is designed with this in mind will provide its owner with a space to retreat to when in need of peace, beauty and felicity.”

NEWS AND PROJECTS:

The Anchor, The Drum, The Ship (2022)
Gladstone Park, Brent, London.
Land Art installation by Harun Morrison and Antonia Couling

A horticultural installation that brings together a variety of plant species, native to Britain, the Mediterranean and Africa, across three shapes: the Akan symbol for the Double Drum, a ship and an anchor, to evoke themes of black migration, belonging, communication, music and collective renewal.

This is the first time in the UK’s history that a public artwork of this kind has been used to acknowledge the contested history of a green space.

The installation was unveiled during Black History Month, October 2022.

Gladstone Park is named after former Prime Minister Sir William Gladstone whose family owned plantations in the Caribbean and received the largest of all compensation payments made by the Slave Compensation Commission.