25/07/2026
Congratulations Aimee it looks fantastic. It’s been lovely to see the journey from drawing, to print, into a hard material and final product.
A Swansea artist has seen her wildflower design installed as the entrance gates at Biome, Oxford Street’s nature-inspired city centre building 🌸
🌸 Swansea-based artist Aimee Rayner has had her artwork installed as the entrance gates at Biome — the city centre’s Biophilic Living development on the former Woolworths site — using woodblock printing, a deliberately slow craft, to capture local wildflowers from Swansea and the Gower across all four seasons.
🌼 Early irises and crocuses appear near ground level, giving way as the design climbs to poppies and cornflowers through spring and summer, then pretty betsy and foxglove into early autumn.
🌿 The intention behind the gates is to blur the line between the building and the natural world outside it, giving people a reason to see their own neighbourhood a little differently.
🎓 Rayner trained in Surface Pattern and Textiles () at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD (), with nature and wellbeing running through much of her output since.
🏢 Biome is the UK’s first biophilic living development — a 13-storey mixed-use building between Oxford Street and The Kingsway, developed by Hacer Developments and designed by Swansea architects Powell Dobson. The 50 affordable apartments will be managed by , alongside rooftop gardens, a four-floor urban greenhouse and commercial space.
Source: Biophilic Living Hacer / Amy Rayner .textiles
