Neuigkeiten aus meiner Ikebana Welt. An welchen Blumen und Materialien ich gerade Freude habe, womit ich und meine Schüler gerade arbeite, was mich beschäftigt und was ich tolles für meinen Ikebana Unterricht entdecke.
Immer frisch und immer mit Herz.
This time our group met at a brandnew house in a rural environment with lots of native plants around which we could use. The theme was a three-dimensional style without container, without Kenzan, only 1 or 2 small vases for the fresh material allowed. We used paper-bark, wild hibiscus, drum-sticks, packing material, wild berries, Salvia and a few more.
Book 5, Lesson 19 is asking for “Relief-Work” made from dried plant-materials. On of my master-students get in the mood and so she did four different relief works, two with a matching arrangment on the side. I would like to support her enthusiasm and show you all the works she has done on this topic.
One of my talented students in Germany came to class with a deep cut in her right hand, with a bandage and could only move two fingers. But she managed to do a wonderful Moribana Variation 1, slanting with apple branches and protea-flowers manly with her left hand. My master-class student did a tsuribana with asparagus and spring-flowers and hang it up very clever on a clothesline. My tsuribana is made to hang up in a window.
We were happy to follow Bettina´s invitation to held a workshop in her beautifully decorated studio, named Motorship, in Noosaville. It was a lot of fun to work with these young motivated ladies, how practist Ikebana for the first time and the results were impressive.
We enjoyed to design our Easter-Arrangements with all kinds of dry branches, beautiful green material, mainly yellow flowers but a few light blue ones, Xanadu-leaves, egg-shells and little quail-eggs. Happy Easter to all of you!
We take a short break and will be back at beginning of April.
Once a month we meet with three ladies from Sogetsu-Queensland to create free arrangements with things we have found over the month. This time, we focust mainly on dried materials, like a hollow tree trunk, bark and interesting branches. We combined theme with some lives and a few fresh flowers.
We focust on table-decoration this week using flat containers, card-bords or direct on a table close. It was fun to work with carfully chosen delicate materials in rarely used containers. For the card-bords we used mother-in-low tongues, together with fruits and a little bit of Tipuchina.
We also did the creativ-class with two Ladies from Sogetsu Brisbane, which was very productiv. The pictures of that you will see next week.
We are encouraged in Book 5 to make an arrangment in two steps, the first step with dry material outside a container and in the second step put it together with fresh materials in a vase. One of this arrangments was made from my students in Germany with vines and one was made in Australia with materials we could finde in the back-yard. Both are very different, but both are interesting and fun to work with.
My German students worked with unvonventional materials such as wire, clothspins, styrofoam or straws. To make an interesting Ikebana without a flower, leave or a branch is allways a challenge, but all students mastered it with joy. Like Sofu Teshigahara said: if I am in a desert, I make Ikebana with sand.
We were invited to hold an Ikebana-Demonstration at the Coolum Womens Shed. The days bevore the event were filled with searching for materials in neighbors garden, in bush and fields and in the supermarkets. The Flower shops are way to expensiv here. My assistend Bernadette, the spectators and my self had a good time, everyone was happy and smiling. We are pleased that we could show our passion to Ikebana.
We managed to held our first Ikebana-Class in 2024 by 34 degree and a humidity from 91 %. A big challenge not only for the flowers but also for the students. We dont have aircon in my Studio, so we went upstairs workt in the livingroom with carfully chosen material, such as Rosmarin, Fern, Golden Candle-Bush, Zinnias and created nice table-arrangements with a lot of joy.
We are on vacation, but we have of course provided a little bit of New-Years-Dekoration in the traditionell colors; red, green and white to your enjoyment. See you soon.
We wish all our Ikebana friends a merry and peacefull Christmas. We take a short brake and see each ather, to going on with our Ikebana jorney, beginning of 2024 totaly relaxt, refreshed and full of power . That is my wish for all of you, my dear friends. Our Christmastree is made from Flamboyant tree and Spinifex.
Wir ließen uns von den exotischen Materialien, die wir am Strand gefunden haben und die Freunde uns zukommen ließen, inspirieren, kreierten einen Sternenregen aus Spinifex, setzten Rückstände der Dattelpalme in Szene, sprühten Aspidistra-Blätter gold, ließen Zweige der Norfolktanne Weihnachtskugeln halten und erfreuten uns an den wunderschönen Strelitien, die hier gerade in fast allen Gärten in Blüte stehen.
This week we did here on the coast and online in Germany our first Christmas-Ikebana of the year. We worked partly with completely new materials and used everything the wonderful natur has to offer, including coral tree, pine, Casuarina and Amaryllis.
I just stumbled across the pictures of our demonstration at the BUGA Mannheim and would like to share some of them with you. It is still exiting to demonstrate in front of a large audience. Thanks to good preparation, a fantastic helper and a very intersted audience, all four arrangements were completet in the required time. And it was a great relief, that also the difficult Nageire stood propper in the Raku ceramic.
Eine meiner australischen Schülerinnen brachte Gardenien-Zweige mit, an denen weiße und gelbe, herrlich duftende, Blüten mit dem schönen Namen “Gardenia golden magic” zu bewundern waren. Um dieser Schönheit gerecht zu werden, arbeiteten wir mit der 4. Variarion, in der der wir ohne Soe auskommen müssen. Weitere spannende Arrangements entstanden mit bereits ausgeblühten wandernden Iris, deren frisches Grün und elegente Struktur immer wieder begeistern.
My German online students worked with one Material only this week. Most of the students used Ilex, which produced very nice berries at this time of the year. With this material good and interesting results were achieved. The other group, here we there, worked on a belated Tsukimi, with all the grasses we could finde.
Präsenz- sowie online-Schüler erarbeiteten in dieser Woche die unterschiedlichsten Arrangements. Während einige ganz klassisch mit der Variation 3 arbeiteten, versuchten sich einige wenige Schüler an der Lektion ohne Kenzan nur mit Blättern. Herbstliche Tischdekorationen standen ebenfalls auf unserem Programm. Ich erfreue mich an der Vielfalt und hoffe, Sie tun das auch.
We worked with different green materials, leaves, twigs, green ivy flowers and wild asparagus. The main challenge in this work is to make it interesting from every sides even without fancy flowers.
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