Kirsten West, a native of Denmark, was raised on a dairy farm on the island of Fyn — where farming, fishing, hygge, and tending the garden were ordinary parts of an ordinary day. She learned the work from her mother Marie, an expert knitter, sewer, embroiderer, and lacemaker who taught her to look closely.
She later studied Botanical Illustration, Drawing, and Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Now living on Cape Cod, she brings four decades of attention to gardens across the Mid, Lower, and Outer Cape — composing planting plans, restoring overgrown beds, and shepherding properties through the seasons with care.