Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Designs
The elongated heart shape Echeveria waist corsage is meant to be worn low around the hip as a trailing ribbon clasp.
I designed my posy to be light and feathery but also earthly, like a fresh snowball gathered from a forest floor.
A floral design snapshot of what it looks like when walking down the streets of Vancouver this week.
I wanted my parasol design to be thoroughly me, and thoroughly contemporary yet respectful of the guiding rules and methods shared by the different schools of Ikebana.
I have always been fascinated, as a designer, by the idea that there is a point when extremes or direct contrasts flip into its opposite.
A twig and stick design with sweet dumpling pumpkins and rosary vine (Ceropegia woodii). I also made a cherry twig and skeleton leaf Stick Insect
The fan is made from 18 coffee stir sticks and dressed with a veil of grass, fall leaves and Viburnum berries
My take on harnessing elegance, simply looped from lily grass. Cool, as in attention-grabbing idea. Collected, as in held together. And contemporary as in the latest thing
Freely translated it means Each Moment, Only Once. It is a saying associated with Japanese tea ceremonies.