About

Rosa Ceño (Madrid, 1972) approaches landscaping as an artistic discipline whose pillars are sustainability, creativity, and innovation. She designs healthy urban landscapes that provide benefits to citizens and promote biodiversity, addressing climate change through adaptation and mitigation strategies based on Nature-based Solutions (NbS). Ceño integrates the landscape into her projects and analyzes the culture and values of each community to improve citizens’ health, creating beautiful, harmonious green spaces that endure over time.

Landscape designer with extensive experience in public and private projects at both national and international level, award-winning, specialising in healthy and therapeutic gardens that evoke natural environments and enhance urban ecosystems.
Designs focus on low water consumption, sustainability, and climate change adaptation, where art and nature engage in dialogue to promote biodiversity, biocontrol, and connectivity in urban and peri-urban green spaces.

Projects include the measurement of Ecosystem Services (regulating, provisioning and cultural), the use of Nature-based Solutions (NbS), and contribute to reducing noise, environmental and light pollution.

Awards:
-1st Prize, OJA Gardening Competition (AMJA) 2022 – Colours of the Coast: 5,000 m² of chromatic gardens on a seafront site, inspired on paintings by nine artists.
-Design Week Marbella Award 2021 – The Wishing Tree: citizen participation and urban greening project featuring paintings by María Ríos (Blanca Soto Arte Gallery).
Holding a Master’s in Historic Gardens and Ecosystem Services for Green Infrastructure (UPM, 2023), since 2013 her international studio, Ginkgo Landscape, has collaborated on consulting projects with architects and international firms in 6 languages (Spanish, English, German, French, Italian and Creole). As a proponent of urban greening, Ceño believes that a thorough analysis of natural capital combined with ecosystem-based designs fostering connectivity among green infrastructure spaces is key for resilient cities to renaturalize and mitigate climate change effects.

Among her latest designs are: The Garden of the Senses, a public park in central Marbella, and residential gardens in Sierra Blanca and Nagüeles. Her experience in both the public and institutional sectors includes the embassies of Canada, the USA, and Switzerland, the Apostolic Nunciature (Haiti), and collaborations with international architecture studios such as L35 in Málaga and Palma de Mallorca. In 2022, her art and garden project Colours of the Coast was awarded First Prize in the OJA Gardening Competition by AMJA for its creativity, sustainability, plant selection, project complexity, beauty, and adaptation to the environment. In 2021, The Tree of Wishes, created in collaboration with Blanca Soto Art Gallery, based on citizen participation and promoting urban greening, received the 2021 Design Week Marbella Award for Best Iconic Center Proposal.

Art, Beauty, and Resilience

Rosa Ceño advocates for creative dialogues between artworks and gardens. Her Art and Landscape proposals surround artistic creations with innovative landscape designs that enhance the value of a sculpture, canvas, or cultural space. Colour, geometry, and beauty define her gardens, where organic lines inspired by nature evoke meanders, deltas, rivers, leaves, or chameleons, reinterpreting flora and fauna. Rectilinear spaces create contrasts and curves that define her distinctive style. A garden becomes a living painting, and her tools are resilient plant species, colour, geometry, light, soil, water, and the surrounding environment.

Creative, innovative, nature-loving, environmentally conscious, detail-oriented, and perfectionist, Ceño creates gardens in harmony with their surroundings, reflecting the beauty and resilience of nature, celebrating all five senses. Her work combines professional expertise, passion for languages, travel, art, and love for plants and landscaping, influenced by her Spanish, Lebanese, and Haitian heritage.