Angela Paine
Angela Paine grew up on a hop farm in Ken where her botanist father taught her about plants. She ended up in Florence in 1967, washing books in the National Library, after the great flood, later marrying, having two children and living in an old olive press in Tuscany. On her return to Britain she embarked on a first degree in Human Physiology, a post graduate diploma in Pharmacology, then a PhD in medicinal plant chemistry. She went on research trips to Africa and South America to collect plant material used as medicine, and collaborated with scientists around the world, publishing internationally in scientific journals. She spent time in the Golden Valley on the border with Wales, where she continued her research into the medicinal properties of the local, native plants which were used by the ancient Celts and wrote her first two books. She now lives in Stroud, where she wrote her next book: Healing plants of Greek myth. Always remaining in contact with Florence she was inspired to write her latest book: Healing plants of Renaissance Florence. She runs workshops and courses on medicinal plants and how to use them to make tinctures, oils, ointments and teas.
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