“I had to learn to trust my gut about what is beautiful,” says plant-lover and committed conservationist Nicky Andrag. She’s relating the story of how she came to start her botanical art studio, Velt, in 2017. It’s a tale that takes off from the point at which, exhausted by the relentless demands of a high-pressure corporate job, Andrag decided to leave the world of IT behind her – and ends with a childhood passion for pressed flowers being transformed into a thriving small creative business.
Andrag’s story will sound familiar to many. A creative person at heart, she graduated from South Africa’s Vega School
