a creative atelier
a creative atelier
A friend brought me this shell from his front yard on a summer day in Austin when it was 104 degrees. I wanted to create a cool feeling around that small, simple, elegant shape. The celosia and the gerbera daisy felt to me like a mini coral reef
This was a forest floor disguised as a wedding bouquet. The more traditional colors and flowers were up top on the headpiece I constructed. I wanted to ground the whole of it with a dense underworld of texture. Ferns and coleus and hopps and lambs ear and berries grounded the whole effect and kept the elaborate floral hat from making her too frothy. Instead, she was the crowned queen of her event and the many textures gave her some earthy sensuality
A pitcher plant filled with hypericum berries next to king protea, green pepper and bittersweet. This was for a luncheon.
If this arrangement were a dance, it would be the mambo. The ranunculus a swish of a petticoat and the phaleonopsis orchid lurking against the wall near the band..
Craspedia and mums.
Phalaeonpsis orchid and textile
The center of a date palm looks like the tentacles of a sea monster. It snaked around phaleonopsis orchids hanging from the ceiling of a wonderful Spanish tapas bar called Barlata that used squid ink in their paella
Yellow bell pepper, dendrobium orchid, tiny lights and the limbs of a sea creature I found
Begonia leaf, fiddle-leaf fern and equicedum horsetail
Wedding bouquet of cymbidium orchids, safflowers, fern, hypericum berries, scabiosia pods, celosia, pepper berries and echeveria. I remember dragging the groom around a huge flower market in Portland at dawn looking for the perfect flowers. I remember laughing all morning as we went from stall to stall. I remembered that perfection is boring, and grabbed what reminded me of the bride's entirely original creativity and humor and the groom's friendship
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