Kemp Garden Design projects

  • Landscape master plan showing garden spaces, including a dining area, planting beds, a lawn, gravel pathways, trees, rose arch, utility area with measurements and a scale.

    City garden master plan

    This design takes a classic city garden and creates sheltered spaces for dining, and a lawn for the dog and other wildlife to play.

  • An Oxford city garden design elevation showing an outdoor area with trees, shrubs, a seating bench, a fence, and a person standing on a balcony reading a book. There are also smaller plants and a sun in the sky.

    An illustrated elevation

    An elevation of first design. We brought the dining area closer to the house and increased the lawn size in the final design.

  • An Oxford city garden design render with cotswold paver dining area in the shade of a multi-stem tree, a wooden outdoor dining table with four chairs, a bottle of wine, two glasses, various flowering plants.

    The dining area render

    With each design, I produce a render based on photos of the garden, to help bring the design to life for my clients.

  • Backyard garden with a small white outbuilding with glass doors, surrounded by a wooden fence and some trees, with a pathway of stepping stones leading to it.

    Small city garden

    A compact city garden following work to add an extension. A common problem. The client wanted an abundant garden, and room for bicycles and bins.

  • Line drawing of a modern outdoor backyard space, featuring a small stage or platform, curved pathway, two wooden privacy screens with plants, and walls on three sides.

    A simple solution

    Good design is often simple, and good value.

  • Artist's rendering of a backyard garden with colorful flowers, trees, and a service entrance in the background, enclosed by wooden fences.

    A 3D illustration

    3D illustrations like this help the client imagine being in the garden.

  • Sketch or watercolor illustration of a backyard garden with trees, bushes, a grassy lawn, a stone pathway, benches, and people.

    Concept illustration for family garden

    This is an illustration to bring a client’s design for a north London family garden to life.

  • Illustration of a backyard play area with a fire pit surrounded by chairs, trees, shrubs, a small shed, and a garden bed, with a mix of drawn and colored elements.

    Rear garden play area

    An illustration as part of work with a London based studio.

  • A master landscape plan for a residential property, showing trees, pathways, and outdoor furniture, with a swimming pool in the bottom right corner.

    Suburban garden master plan

    This garden rises up by over a metre to the boundary, so the challenge was to create a sense of spaciousness around the house, with areas to eat together, grow vegetables, and enjoy a relaxing water feature.

  • Master plan

    Driveway concept

    The idea here is to create space for parking and paths to the house which move through abundant planting. Careful lighting will ensure this would e a welcoming, interesting, and lovely driveway.

  • A parking lot with three parked cars, pavement, and landscaped areas with trees and bushes.

    Driveway concept 2

    This was the original concept. Stone setts will prevent the gravel from moving across this slightly sloping driveway.

  • Master plan

    Productive garden details

    This is the laying out plan for the productive garden, designed to maximize growing space.

  • A backyard with a large leafless tree in the center, green grassy lawn, garden plants along the left side, a wooden table and benches on the right side, garden shed in the distance, cloudy sky.

    Existing garden

    A family garden, full of possibilities.

  • Garden design outline

    3D model with basic rendering to clarify the new structure.

  • A garden scene with colorful flowers, trees, and two silhouetted people, one adult and one child, standing on a lawn near a stone-paved area with steps.

    Garden design illustration

    Illustration to bring the design to life, but not intended to show final plant selection.

  • Award winning design

    Award winning design

    This is the elevation of the Grade II listed Isokon Building, London. For which my design won the prestigious KLC Grand Design award.

  • City garden

    Secluded meeting space

    A meeting space with a woodland edge planting scheme, to create a secluded, garden in the city.

  • An Wesst Dead award winning Isokon Building rooftop terrace design with wooden flooring, landscaped with modern patterned planters filled with purple, green, and yellow plants, two people are dancing.

    A joyful roof terrace

    A roof terrace to talk, dine, and dance, in Belsize Park. This is the award winning design and final student project.