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Floral Art
t h e C o v e n t G a r d e n
ACADEMY
o f f l o w e r s
Flowers Imagination
Gillian Alan
Flowers
Imagination
ISBN 978-90-5856-433-7
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Author
Gillian and Alan Wheeler
Photography
Misc.
28 x 28 cm
156 p. HC
+ 100 illustrations
English edition
ISBN 978-90-5856-433-7
€ 49,00
Release: May 2013
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‘Flowers are the most amazing and beautiful creations.
Nothing on earth can match their colours,
textures and fragrances. Flowers, singly or massed,
have a vibrant life that along with foliage gives
the designer an incomparable paint box of colour
and an endless series of sculptural forms.’ Dit zijn
de exacte woorden van Gillian Wheeler, oprichtster
en drijvende kracht achter The Covent Garden
Academy of Flowers in hartje Londen. In dit boek
toont ze zich een verbeeldingsvolle artiest, die het
rijk pallet en de eindeloze mogelijkheiden die bloemen
haar aanreiken met verve weet te hanteren.
Haar bloemwerk, of het nu op zichzelf staat of in
dienst van andere kunsten, zoals ballet of - en niet
in het minst - de delicate papierkunst van echtgenoot
en artistieke sparring partner Alan, is zonder
fout smaakvol, klassiek weelderig en elegant. Dit
boek getuigt van de vruchtbare interactie tussen
verschillende kunsten – bloemsierkunst en paper
art. Een prachtige synergie gesymboliseerd in de
elegante ampersand in de titel.
Flowers & Imagination
‘Flowers are the most amazing and beautiful creations.
Nothing on earth can match their colours,
textures and fragrances. Flowers, singly or massed,
have a vibrant life that along with foliage gives the
designer an incomparable paint box of colour and
an endless series of sculptural forms.’ These are
the exact words of Gillian Wheeler, foundress and
principal of The Covent Garden Academy of Flowers
situated in the heart of London. In this book she
proves to be an imaginative artist, a designer who
can handle the rich palette flowers offer very well.
No matter if Gillian designs bouquets or uses her
designs to bring out the best in other arts such as
the ballet or to emphasize textures and shapes in
the delicate paper art of husband and artistic sparring
partner Alan, her choices in flowers and shapes
are tasteful, rich and stylish and exude and oldworld
class and elegance. This book testifies of the
imaginative interaction between different arts - floral
art and paper art. Beautiful synergy, symbolized
in the elegant ampersand in the title of this book.
© Covent Garden Academy of Flowers