Flowers or Floral Designs

Flowers are vital to ecosystems, culture, the economy, and human well-being. Their value extends beyond surface beauty - they inspire, soothe, and sustain life.

Gardens provide calming, therapeutic spaces, promoting mental and emotional wellness. Artists have long celebrated floral forms: Gustav Klimt’s Garden of Flowers (1917), Van Gogh’s Pink Roses (1890), and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Red Kanna (1919) and Claude Monet's famous Water Lilies (1919) are powerful tributes to their elegance and symbolism.

Flower garden (1907) by Gustav Klimt (oil on canvas)

Art inspiration;

🎨 Observational drawing of flowers from still-life using a vase of flowers or those in nature.

🎨 Print or colour some flower drawings using wax crayons, coloured pencils, pens, or electronically.

🎨 Make flower prints and repeat them, get your hands involved, finger painting can be good for this as well as bubble wrap or knobbly bottle bases to shape petals!

🎨 Maybe make a paper flower garden, collect materials, and create something.

🎨 Be inspired by who may live in the garden, alongside the flowers, maybe your imagination is drawn to the fairy folk or the pollinators, you may choose bees or insects…

🎨 You may have some dried flowers you can use to create or some fresh petals/blooms, you decide🌼

A bumble bee visiting a Foxglove

Floral designs also feature prominently in cake artistry, henna painting, and tattoos, offering intricate and expressive visual language. Rare flowers blooming in remote regions continue to captivate the imagination. People decorate their homes, inside and out, with floral motifs in crockery, wallpaper, and fabrics.

This looks like it will be a very nature-inspired evening. Please join us on Wednesday evening if you're free, to come and chill and make some art.