Elspeth Diederix was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1971, and raised in Colombia. She studied painting and sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam between 1990 and 1995, and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 1998-2000. Photography eventually proved to be the best medium for her to form her ideas; nevertheless, both painting and sculpture have been present in her work since the outset. In 2002, she won the prestigious Prix de Rome Photography award, and her works are in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the AzkoNobel Art Foundation; and the AMC Art Collection, Amsterdam among others. Her publications include Still Life Submerged (2012), These Things (2005), and Supernatural (2003). The birth of her daughters has brought her focus towards her direct surroundings in recent years, such as the garden of her studio, ‘An experiment in gardening and photography’, that can be followed via the blog Studio Garden. During this period her work has become more organic and tactile, like in the projects Still Life Submerged and Plumeria & Chicory. A fascinating new development, drawing on the same motivation: the revelation of the sublime in the world around us.