Study level 3 and 4

Style: Avant garde

Description:

An experimental flower arrangement always is a challenge for a designer. Avant garde means you will try to do it in a different way, try to find new solutions and cross your border. You are against tradition and dare to use alternative materials. Avant garde is a constant process of renewing and change. Not always accepted and appreciated by your surrounding. But this may not be a limitation to develop your creativity and development. There are no rules and avant garde is not a style of flower art. It is different and a search to the new.

We need for this lesson:

• A container, high model, or another shape.

• 2 pieces Oasis and eventually chicken wire for extra support.

• A long bamboo stick or a branch, 3 filled branches Asparagus umbellatus or short conifer, 2 bunch Equisetum japonicum, 3 Helianthus annuus, 2 stems Solanum mammosum or another nice branch with fruits, 3 Spathyphyllum, 3 Strelitzia reginae, some conifer, colored paper or plastic, plastic band or colored rope.

• You also can choose another combination.

Step by step:

1. Soap the oasis, and fix it in the container. Keep space to give water to the arrangement. Eventually you first connect a few pin holders.

2. Place a bamboo in the middle in upright position. After it you put in the Equisetum one by one in the oasis and bind them in the top together. You create a pyramid shape.

3. Put in conifer a side and wind colored plastic band around the cone shape.

4. Put in short pieces Asparagus or conifer in the oasis to cover this in a decorative way.

5. Put in Strelitzia and Spathyphyllum. Do this in a spontaneous way. You can create space with it. 

6. Finally you connect colored paper around a oasis globe and bind it together. You put the globe on top of the pyramid in the bamboo stick.

Materials used are: Asparagus umbellatus, Equisetum japonicum, Helianthus annuus, Solanum mammosum, Spathyphyllum, Strelitzia reginae, conifer, paper, plastic band.

For more information see the book:

• Flowerworld, a road to flower art

• Moderne bloemsierkunst (modern flower art)

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Last update of this page 16.02.2005