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 and is now also Marketing Director for the new annual competition Garden Photographer of the Year.

‘Jules’ was a recruitment professional before moving to Clive Nichols Garden Photography as Library Manager in 2003. She is a busy lady. As well as researching images and managing your account, she is responsible for our growing list of UK and International sales agents as well as liaising with garden writers, garden owners, picture editors, freelance researchers and publishers worldwide.

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 covering for Julie who is on maternity leave. She worked as PA to the general manager of the prototype department at Aston Martin in Warwickshire. She 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.