Jackie Herald has a rounded knowledge and experience of gardens and design over many
years. This includes detailed know-how of hard and soft landscaping, suitable materials and structures to use in the garden,
plants and horticulture, garden history and project management. She holds a Diploma
in Garden Design from KLC in London.
To her garden design practice she brings insights and ideas from the worlds of textiles, design
and art history. For several years she was Course Director of MA Design for the Environment at Chelsea College of Art &
Design.
At the 2005 Chelsea Flower Show, Jackie assisted with the prestigious Merrill Lynch Garden. She
has a hands on approach and has worked with Scarecrow Plants on nursery preparation of plants, propagation, and
proposals for improving the flow around a garden open for the National Gardens Scheme.
Garden design projects include a large countrified garden in Blackheath, a low-allergen
garden in Hampstead, front gardens that happily combine parking and planting in a range of conservation areas, a large
family garden with swimming pool in Surrey, riverside balcony gardens in Greenwich, and an edible and aromatic courtyard
garden in Camden.
Jackie is an independent consultant on exhibition interpretation. She was
a member of the multidisciplinary team that developed an award-winning interactive on the lifecycle of a T-shirt, for the
Challenge of Materials Gallery at the Science Museum, London. She also devised the education zone for an exhibition
of contemporary Japanese jewellery at the Crafts Council, London.
She has extensive experience in broadcasting, as reporter, interviewer and expert interviewee
. This has included Fante flags of coastal Ghana (South Bank Show); Otterton Mill, and special outside broadcast on quilts
(Radio 4 Woman’s Hour); reclaimed timber yards, and Hatherleigh Market (Radio 4 Afternoon Shift); the future of indigo
(BBC News 24); panel discussions on Cults and Fashion (BBC Five Live); Isabella d’Este (Radio 4 Kaleidoscope).
Jackie has written several books on fashion history and world crafts, including Renaissance
Dress in Italy 1400-1500 and (for Oxfam) World Crafts. She has contributed numerous articles for a diverse
range of arts and interior design publications that include an essay for the Pitt Rivers Museum exhibition catalogue
on recycled objects, an article on the greening of men's fashion for an early issue of FHM, insights into Covent Garden's
pre-restoration production departments for Opera House magazine, and book reviews for HALI.
Her first degree is in French and Italian; she holds an MA in History of Art from the
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her other qualifications include a Diploma in Management Studies
and Scholar, Attingham Summer School on the history and conservation of the English country house, its architecture, contents
and landscape. She also holds a Diploma in analysis of historic textile structures, Musée des Tissus, Lyon.
Jackie brings experience in preparing planning applications and listed building consent in a conservation area, party
wall issues, and researching planning conditions and preparing applications for refurbishment and new build.
She is a fluent French speaker and writer with knowledge of property conservation and heritage issues in France. She
also has a good working knowledge of Italian.
