Turning remarkable places into unforgettable visitor experiences.

Two brown pigs standing on vibrant green grass with one pig in sharp focus and the other blurred in the background.
Large, hollow wooden sculpture resembling a pinecone lying on its side in a field of yellow wildflowers with trees and a cloudy sky in the background.
Young girl in a light green dress jumping high on a large inflatable outdoor trampoline under a blue sky.
Six people standing in front of a large wooden sculpture of an animal resembling a fox in a green forest.
Colorful umbrellas lit and hanging in a forest at night, creating a vibrant and artistic display among tree branches.
A man in a black jacket and blue jeans and a smiling woman in black sitting on rocks inside a greenhouse with plants around them.
Woman in a pink blazer and gray hat speaking into a microphone while holding a clipboard on stage.

Lowenva Studio creates brand experiences that make people feel something. Founded by Laura Smit Chesterfield, the studio works with individuals, places and organisations to build brand DNA that enchants.

Turning meaningful moments into repeat customers and brand loyalty.

How we workAbout the studio

Past projects
and collaborations 

Some of the previous projects that have been I have been fortunate to be a part of include curation of award winning large scale events, commissioning artistic installations, creating ambitious interpretation, designing wellbeing and nature immersion experiences, advising on and developing sustainability standards and curating unique customer journeys. Lowenva Studio will take a story and compose how they get amplified on your stage.
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Heligan Night Garden

Large illuminated sculpture of a colorful kingfisher bird glowing against a dark night background.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Heligan Night Garden

Laura led the team in concepting, curating and operationally developing The Heligan Night Garden. An award winning immersive event created from scratch, rooted in Heligan's ecological story. Delivered in collaboration with artists and creative partners to tell stories of the hidden natural world – now drawing over 50,000 visitors annually, becoming a new tradition that changed how people experience the place, and opened up a commercial opportunity within a shoulder month.

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Lowarnes Sculpture

Large illuminated sculpture of a colorful kingfisher bird glowing against a dark night background.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Lowarnes Sculpture Project

A brief to celebrate the natural world through ambitious, collaborative art that invites new audiences. Project management acted as composer of the dream, inspiring belief and enabling possibility. The team created a landmark installation that connects people with landscape and creativity, tempts national press coverage, and leaves a lasting legacy inspiring curiosity, pride, and care of place. Lowarnes designed and built by artists Sue and Pete Hill, and Hal Sylvester.

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Farm Park Development

Large illuminated sculpture of a colorful kingfisher bird glowing against a dark night background.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Farm Park Development

The project delivered the South West’s first accredited Rare Breeds Survival Trust farm park, opening new ways to share stories of conservation, native livestock, and vital genetics. Through high welfare standards and breeding programmes, it safeguards the future of farming, while an engaging events programme connects visitors with animals, food systems, and the importance of protecting rare and heritage breeds.

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More Coming Soon

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It's worth the wait

More projects coming soon

Lowenva Studio's full portfolio will be shared on our full website coming soon.

Quietly unforgettable – 
Impact that lasts generations

The Studio works most naturally with purpose led organisations. Businesses with a story to tell and an experience ready to enhance.
Heritage landscapes, visitor and hospitality attractions, wellbeing settings, and active participation destinations.

Places where story, landscape and people genuinely matter.

Collaborators, creatives, artists and poets make up the Lowenva Studio orchestra. With Laura as composer, Lowenva Studio believes if it moves people, it's worth doing.

50,000

Annual Heligan Night Garden event visitors

Laura led Heligan's winter event to become a tradition within the community and beyond. Growth and diversification through authentic stories of place.

UK 1st

Garden with B Corp status

Laura led the certification process to ensure a positive impact was felt and measured. Lowenva Studio is working towards this certification.

How we enhance what you do

Lowenva Studio arrives when the gap between intention and feeling has grown too wide.

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Most work with Lowenva does not begin with a brief.

It begins with a conversation. Often over good food. 
Sometimes walking the ground together.

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Always with curiosity, intention and feeling.

Laura Smit-Chesterfield Smiling in a pink blazer and gray hat speaking into a microphone, holding a clipboard on stage with colorful background.
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Brand experience and storytelling

Every organisation has a story. Not every organisation is telling it in a way people actually feel. Lowenva Studio finds the real narrative and builds the strategy, language and experience to make it land.

Large moss-covered sculpture of a reclining figure with a glowing crescent moon suspended above in a dark forest.
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Interpretation and narrative strategy

Interpretation and experience design for heritage sites, landscapes, nature projects and gardens – going beyond signage and trails to design the moments that let visitors discover what makes a place extraordinary.

Two people standing indoors holding copies of a book titled 'Dwell' by Simon Armitage against a backdrop with the same book cover design.
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Visitor and experience journey design

Lowenva Studio maps the full visitor journey. Every touchpoint, transition and missed opportunity, identifying the glimmers that make somewhere worth returning to. We design the traditions people are waiting to bring into their lives and dream up the ones that are still missing.

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Play and adventure are at the heart of all experiences.

Smiling young girl with curly hair and face paint standing on a wooden bridge outdoors.
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Event curation and delivery

Ambitious, on brand programming and collaboration can enhance the impact of a place or a business, amplify your story and create memories that are unforgettable.

Large scale events or small scale intimate gatherings. From the glimmers of an idea something special can evolve.

Building experiences for the future., not just for now. Build something people will talk about for the right reasons.

Group of professionally dressed people smiling and interacting in a grand room with arched ceilings.
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Project leadership and sustainability

End-to-end project leadership bringing creative ambition together with operational delivery – and leaving something behind worth having. Sustainability practices are a part of how we work, with Mother Nature guiding decisions.

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There are endless ways we can work together, depending on the scale and ambition of your organisation. Get in touch for a detailed services roadmap.

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A beaver drinks water from a forest puddle while a woman squats nearby behind an open animal cage.
A beaver drinking water from a pond in a forest with a woman crouching nearby and a metal animal trap cage beside her.
A beaver drinking water from a pond in a forest with a woman crouching nearby and a metal animal trap cage beside her.
A beaver drinking water from a pond in a forest with a woman crouching nearby and a metal animal trap cage beside her.
A beaver drinking water from a pond in a forest with a woman crouching nearby and a metal animal trap cage beside her.
A beaver drinking water from a pond in a forest with a woman crouching nearby and a metal animal trap cage beside her.
A beaver drinking water from a pond in a forest with a woman crouching nearby and a metal animal trap cage beside her.

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Lowenva’s Founder & chief composer

A life spent inside the places that matter

Lowenva • [low-en-va]

Cornish word meaning ‘place of happiness’.

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Local roots.

Laura Smit Chesterfield grew up within The Lost Gardens of Heligan and The Eden Project – two of Britain’s most extraordinary living landscapes and visitor destinations. This is where she learnt the power of good people, believing in a dream and of the enchantment of a great story.

After a career in the voluntary and criminal justice sector, Laura joined the Heligan team to go on to achieve amazing things. Proudly leading as Managing Director and also Director of Experience and Legacy. What she built in this time was not just a career, it was a unique insight in what happens when story, place and people truly align.

Happiness comes from connection to people, places and nature and the work of this studio is rooted in this belief.

Outdoor wooden playground structures and a slide with a child with face paint playing inside a wooden tunnel, alongside a sign reading 'The Lost Gardens of Heligan'.

Stories made physical.

A six-metre fox sculpture that made national news. Beavers reintroduced within a Cornish estate. The South West's largest outdoor play space. The world's largest Bug Hotel. Work that started as a wild idea and ended up changing how people felt about a place through the stories that were played out on the stage. Everyone has a story...they just need courage to tell it loudly.

Wood shelter with stacked logs on both sides and a path leading through, with signs reading 'Bugginghum' and 'Palace' under green leafy trees.

Planet at the core.

Laura’s love of the natural world runs through all her work. She led Heligan to gain B Corp accreditation and they received The King's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development in 2025 under her leadership. Mother Nature has a seat at Lowenva's board room table, meaning sustainability isn't a bolt-on. It's baked into how the Studio thinks from day one.

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Human first.

Shaped by years working in the domestic abuse and animal welfare sector, Laura leads with care and emotional intelligence, listening deeply, noticing what others miss, and creating the conditions where the right ideas can surface. She takes on work her children will be proud of. Legacy and future generations are never an afterthought.

"Making and installing Lowarnes at Heligan was one of the best experiences in our 30-year career of creating site specific artworks. Laura is an ideal collaborator; creative, supportive, with a strong intuitive sense of what would work for the spirit of place. She’s brilliant at motivating people too, so we were blessed with enthusiastic help from her team. We literally couldn’t have done it without her or them."
Sue Hill
Cornish Artist and Theatre-Maker, Performer, Storyteller, Curator and Director.
"Collaborating with Laura to create a brand-new event from scratch has been joyful. She is open to ideas, bright as a firefly and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge with her."
Jo Pocock
Artistic Director, Lantern Company
"Laura reads a landscape the way a good storyteller reads a room. She understands the soul of a place and creates experiences around it that invite people into deeper connection, wellbeing, and a quiet sense of enchantment. To work with her is to become a friend."
Rupert Isaacson
Writer, Teacher & Founder of the Horse Boy Method.
"Creative, thoughtful, industrious and an excellent communicator, Laura brings a great understanding of people and place to every project: she’s brilliant!"
Alasdair Moore
Head of Gardens & Estate, Tresco Abby Gardens, Isles of Scilly.
Get in touch

Curiosity is enough to start

Notice the small signals. Listen beneath words. Ask questions that uncover truth. Stand with good people. Keep sharp elbows out. If it doesn’t move hearts, it fails.

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Laura@lowenva.studio

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The Studio

Based in Cornwall, working with places and organisations across the UK and beyond.

This is the joy exchange

Because good work should do good things.

Every Lowenva studio project contributes beyond the brief. A portion of every fee supports local charities and initiatives that provide places of happiness for the Cornish Community.

Let's spread the joy together!