As studio founder and principal designer, Colm's work has been published widely and won multiple awards, including 'Grand Award' at the British National Landscape Awards 2024 and silver-gilt medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Colm is named in House & Garden's 'Top 50 garden designers'. Colm previously worked as a management consultant and economist delivering projects to expand economic opportunities for people in Africa. With a long-held love of gardens and natural landscape, and a desire to live a more creative life, he retrained in 2017 and established the garden design studio. Colm trained at the acclaimed London College of Garden Design (LCGD) at Kew Gardens, graduating as the highest achieving student in the history of the college. In recent years Colm has been a guest tutor at LCGD, teaching future designers in-the-making.