It gives me particular pleasure to showcase Margherita"s work here. She was a student of my dear friend and estimed colleague Nicola Shears, and she came to my summer IB art course at la Vigna Art Studios 2 summers in a row. It was during the first summer there that she began an investigation into plant roots that developed into her focus for the entire course.It all started with a humble pencil drawing of roots dug...