About us

The Team

At Clive Nichols we aim to provide the highest quality service possible. We are a small team of dedicated professionals based in a rural Oxfordshire location close to the M40. We welcome visitors by appointment

Clive Nichols

Clive Nichols is one of the world's most successful flower and garden photographers. He has won many awards for his work and in 2005 was voted 'Garden Photographer of the Year' by the Garden Writers Guild. His work has appeared in countless magazines, books and calendars throughout the world and he is in constant demand as a lecturer and teacher, running many workshops for the Royal Horticultural Society.

He has appeared on British and Japanese TV, sits on the RHS Photographic Committee and is a judge for the 'Garden Photographer of the Year' competition.

Jane is co owner of Clive Nichols Garden Photography. She looks after the strategic business development and longer term planning of the business. She was founding Chairman of The Garden Photographers' Association.

Stephen remotely manages the imaging workflow and web database systems for Clive ensuring that the images are available to clients with full colour management and metadata present.

Stephen is also a team member on the shoots that Clive organizes for clients. Here he works as digital assistant providing live views from the camera to enable the art director to see how Clive is shooting.

He also retouches the images from these shoots.

Stephen offers his services to other clients and he can be contacted here: Stephen@copyrightimage.com

IIf you have an interest in imaging or stock photography you may find it useful to review Stephens site: www.copyrightimage.com
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Gemma is PA to Clive and has been with the company since December 2009. She worked as PA to the general manager of the prototype department at Aston Martin in Warwickshire previous to this. She now spends most of her time managing Clive's busy travel schedule as well as being responsible for the general day to day running of the office, she has a very varied role and no two days are ever the same!

Richard accompanies Clive on most of his overseas travel assignments as well as those in the UK. Recent shoots include a month long tour of the world - photographing 14 of the world's best buildings for a Russian Senator, numerous flower shoots for retail giant NEXT and a 3 day shoot at the stunning Villa Giuseppina on Lake Como, Italy

Jacky is a creative freelance stylist and writer. She is the stylist for all the NEXT flower shoots that Clive undertakes, as well as working with Clive on interior and garden shoots. She also works in close partnership with photographer Michelle Garrett to produce garden, lifestyle, travel and food features for a wide variety of magazines, corporate brochures, websites and books - including her own title - Floral Gifts