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DID YOU KNOW? Passionate about flowers since she was a young girl, Severina Lartigue now makes silk flowers entirely by hand in her workshop in Normandy, France. Each petal is cut out using special tools and painted in the required shade, while the veins of each leaf are embossed on to the fabric using a crimper. It might take a hundred petals to create a single rose and each may be a different size, shade and shape.
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FROM THE ARTISAN’S HANDBOOK Based in Dublin, Ireland, Sasha Sykes describes herself as “a country girl at heart”, so it’s no wonder her work is all about preserving nature and transforming it into artistic objects. Every week she goes foraging for wild flowers and plants and then captures them in resins, creating unique pieces of sculptural furniture. You might say her process is a very modern version of a Victorian flower press!
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FLORAL CRAFTSMANSHIP IN ACTION
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British ceramicist Vanessa Hogge loves the contrast between porcelain’s malleability in its raw state, and its solidity when fired. She makes floral sculptures made up of hundreds of individually hand-modelled petals, but even after such time-consuming work she thinks carefully about whether to fire her sculpture or reuse the clay in its malleable form, because “once it’s fired that’s it, it’s going to be there forever”.
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© Polly Rusyn / © Yeshen Venema
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