About Digital Landscapes
Digital Landscapes was born out of a frustration at existing training for Vectorworks and SketchUp. The courses we attended were often very technical and we found learning more advanced techniques tricky without guidance as to where we could find the information to progress.
Founded by Emily Sharpe and Fiona Silk, it was borne of conversations about how there must be a better way - courses that help people incrementally build skills whilst building their confidence with complex pieces of software; training delivered with precise, and concise, instructions and no jargon-filled waffle; and warm and friendly tutors that make learning, dare we say it, fun.
Our aim is to create courses and resources to help landscape professionals not only improve their graphics skills, but also to improve their efficiency, productivity and profitability. We believe in interactive learning through demonstration and hands-on exercises, amongst a group of like-minded people who are willing you forward.
After graduating with an honours degree in Computer Science, Fiona promptly decided she didn’t want to work in an office full of IT technicians and entered a career in marketing. She then spent two years teaching English to primary school students in Japan, before returning to the UK and studying at London College of Garden Design, graduating in 2011.
Since then Fiona has done a mix of private design work and freelancing for other designers (including Jo Thompson, Butter Wakefield, Adolfo Harrison, Mark Gregory, and James Alexander Sinclair). In 2014 she started tutoring for The London College of Garden Design, where she still works, and she also taught for Capel Manor from 2016 to 2020.
Fiona moved out of London in 2021 and can be found running around the glorious hills in peaceful Malvern with her two dogs.
Fiona Silk
“I like computers: always have done but, in spite of my best efforts, CAD has rather escaped me and I am of a generation of designers who are happier with bits of paper and animated descriptions. Therefore I need some young and springy geniuses to take my airy scribbles and transform them into something easily comprehensible by clients and contractors. Step forward Fiona and Emily.”