Biography
Blair Butterfield is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and researcher whose work explores how relationships with plants, place, and memory shape psychological experience and ecological relationships. She develops paintings, cyanotypes, writing, and community-based projects that use plants as a method for examining memory, healing, and identity, asking one question in many forms: how do relationships with plants, place, image, and ritual shape human healing, identity, and memory?
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Raised in rural Florida, Butterfield studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute before completing her BFA at Central Saint Martins in London, where she lived, worked, exhibited, and curated for several years. Her interest in socially engaged practice developed after returning to the United States, particularly through her time in Miami, where she founded Art of Cultural Evolution, an environmental arts nonprofit that turned vacant lots into community gardens, operated a 2.5-acre organic CSA farm, and built educational programs connecting contemporary art, food systems, and ecological science.
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Her MFA, completed through the University of Hartford's Nomad9 program, focused on regenerative culture across the Americas. She served as Communications Director for Camino Verde, a reforestation organization in the Peruvian Amazon, where documenting ecological restoration reinforced her conviction that the healing of landscapes and the healing of people are deeply intertwined.
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Butterfield trained as a clinical herbalist through the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and the Herbal Academy. Her understanding of plants is equally shaped by years of learning from grandmothers and women elders, watching how they tend their own families and communities with food and herbs.
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Today Butterfield lives in White River Junction, Vermont, where her work centers on Stone & Petal Farm, plantLust Botanicals, and the Department of Botanical Memory, an evolving research and creative practice exploring botanical knowledge, cultural memory, ecological grief, and restoration. She also works in restorative and community justice and is pursuing graduate study in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Art Therapy at Antioch University New England.
Across these intersecting practices, her work continues to return to a single central inquiry: how relationships with plants, place, image, and ritual shape human healing, identity, and memory.
