‘Maybe it all started with this artichoke’: the botanic prints that mark a new life chapter

‘I’d gone on the trip and survived … hanging these pictures was a real icing on the cake’: author Karina May on her pear and artichoke prints by Monika Petersen. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

In 2012, author Karina May’s long-term relationship had reached its expiry. “It was a bad breakup,” she says.

But instead of abandoning the European vacation she had planned in a last-ditch effort to save the union, she sold her ex-partner’s ticket to a friend and went anyway.