A delightful step out of the urban city for me this week to the beautiful Didsbury Parsonage for the Animula Spring Bowl workshop hosted by lovely Róisín. I spend a lot of time drawing flowers so I appreciated the opportunity to work with them and learn the art of events floristry.
Similar to the japanese ikebana technique where the kensan is used, I learnt how to create an arrangement using sculpted chicken wire. This approach allows the arrangements to be much larger in scale. There is certainly a knack to it, it can be tricky to balance as it doesn't have the weight of the kensan keeping it grounded which is where a little bit of taping helps. It is impressive the kind of arrangements that can be created with this wire technique. All the equipment can be reused and the gorgeous hedgerow flowers are locally sourced by Róisín.
In these workshops Róisín touches on an important theme I'm finding in recent pursuits (e.g. GFSmith Vinyl) where in an increasingly frenetic digital world the time we use physically creating, touching and interacting with tactile materials offers an antidote. In addition the meditative 'flow state' of focused minds playing with flowers is food for the soul.
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| ANIMULA SPRING BOWL WORKSHOP | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA |
clockwise from the top left: róisín at work in the didsbury parsonage, the tasty and beautiful canapes róisín made, the start of my arrangement with the wire in the bowl, my floral arrangement, the ceramic bowl made by philip scott art, chickenwire secateurs flowers and the necessary protective gloves, folk candles and plates by bonfire pottery of which im a proud owner of a green one,
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