FLORAL DESIGN
My floral career began 14 years ago when I drove my boss’s rose filled van in to a ditch on Valentine’s Day. Shortly thereafter, I learned the art of flowers working as a freelance designer in NYC where I assisted with elaborate installations at The Waldorf Hotel, MOMA, The Met, and weekly accounts for restaurants and private residences. Upon moving to Seattle, I landed a job as an in-house floral designer and decorator for a well-established private club & catering company. I have also worked as a designer for several retail boutiques while also running my own business.
After a four year hiatus from my floral career in order to pursue a degree in horticulture and landscape design, I now come back to the world of flowers with a deep well of inspiration and a broadened sense of what ‘floral design’ means.
My love of gardening and the plant world have a strong influence upon my floral compositions. The garden offers an infinite variety of color and texture with which to play. These include prehistoric looking foliage, black grasses, vintage roses, silver seedpods, and unfurling fern fronds. These prove to be far more inspiring than the suspiciously uniform flowers and unscented blooms to be found at your typical flower market. I prefer for my arrangements to have seasonal and local relevance and I allow for the natural elements, or the vessel itself, to inform my design. While sometimes bold and simple, and other times more organic and wild, my arrangements are always an evocative mingling of unique ingredients.
FLORAL DESIGN
My floral career began 14 years ago when I drove my boss’s rose filled van in to a ditch on Valentine’s Day. Shortly thereafter, I learned the art of flowers working as a freelance designer in NYC where I assisted with elaborate installations at The Waldorf Hotel, MOMA, The Met, and weekly accounts for restaurants and private residences. Upon moving to Seattle, I landed a job as an in-house floral designer and decorator for a well-established private club & catering company. I have also worked as a designer for several retail boutiques while also running my own business.
After a four year hiatus from my floral career in order to pursue a degree in horticulture and landscape design, I now come back to the world of flowers with a deep well of inspiration and a broadened sense of what ‘floral design’ means.
My love of gardening and the plant world have a strong influence upon my floral compositions. The garden offers an infinite variety of color and texture with which to play. These include prehistoric looking foliage, black grasses, vintage roses, silver seedpods, and unfurling fern fronds. These prove to be far more inspiring than the suspiciously uniform flowers and unscented blooms to be found at your typical flower market. I prefer for my arrangements to have seasonal and local relevance and I allow for the natural elements, or the vessel itself, to inform my design. While sometimes bold and simple, and other times more organic and wild, my arrangements are always an evocative mingling of unique ingredients.