What we do
Digital Landscapes is an online learning and community platform for those in the landscape industries - architects, designers, contractors and plants people. It's a place to learn, share your work, connect with like-minded people and get advice.
When you sign up for a course - live, online or even a free one - you'll get instant access to the community.
We teach Vectorworks, SketchUp, Photoshop, rendering software and much more, as well as AI and other relevant business skills, all in a way that's clear, engaging and dare we say it fun!
About Digital Landscapes
Digital Landscapes was born out of frustration at existing training for software commonly used in the design and landscape industries, particularly Vectorworks. The courses we attended were highly technical (and often quite boring!) and we found learning more advanced techniques tricky as they assumed prior knowledge yet never indicated how to acquire it.
Founded by Emily Sharpe and Fiona Silk, and based at the foot of the Malvern Hills in the UK, 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 with absolutely no jargon-filled waffle; and warm and friendly tutors that make learning engaging and enjoyable.
Our aim is to create courses and resources to help 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 community of like-minded people who are willing you forward.
About Fiona
After graduating with an honours degree in Computer Science, Fiona promptly decided she didn’t want to work in an office full of IT nerds and entered a career in marketing, mostly working in agencies for clients as diverse as T-Mobile, Arriva Trains Wales, Royal Bank of Scotland and the tourist board of Jersey. Having had enough of the relentless stress she went to Japan for a couple of months and ended up staying for two years, teaching English to primary school students and doing karate, before returning to the UK and studying at London College of Garden Design, graduating in 2011.
Since then she's done a mix of her own design work and freelancing for other designers (including Jo Thompson, Butter Wakefield, Adolfo Harrison, Mark Gregory, and James Alexander Sinclair). She's also had her work in front of two ruling monarchs and met a princess at Chelsea Flower Show but didn't recognise her.
In 2014 she started tutoring for The London College of Garden Design, where she still works, taught for Capel Manor from 2016 to 2020 and is now also teaching for KLC. Throughout this she's always done tutoring for individuals as well as in design studios.
In 2014 she started tutoring for The London College of Garden Design, where she still works, taught for Capel Manor from 2016 to 2020 and is now also teaching for KLC. Throughout this she's always done tutoring for individuals as well as in design studios.
Fiona moved out of London in 2021 and can be found running around the glorious hills in peaceful Malvern with her two dogs, lifting weights at the gym, wrangling her own garden and drinking wine with friends.
Jargon-free
Whether you're a complete beginner or a seasoned CAD pro looking to up-skill, we guarantee our courses are accessible and free from unnecessary technical waffle
By industry pros
... For industry pros. Our courses are created specifically for landscape professionals, meaning every tool we teach solves a real-world design problem
Interactive learning
You learn by doing, using hands-on exercises and practical demonstrations instead of just watching passive lectures
Community
The second you join, you gain a built-in network of like-minded landscape professionals willing you forward
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