Leaves only
/To work only with leaves is always a challenge. We tried to combine different shades and different shapes of green leaves and added a small amount of red Cordyline fruticosa or good luck plant to lighten up our arrangements.
Ikebana Blog
First Ikebana-Day 2025 at my Studio in Bli Bli
/All of my students were very excited to start the new Ikebana-class last Friday, after two month of Ikebana-abstinence. In January is not much happend on the Sunshine-Coast, school-summer-holidays and the heat demand their tribute. We defied the heat with three fans and worked succesfully on straight and curved lines, on basic upright- and basic slanting-styles with slightly modifications.
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Creative Group Sunshine-Coast
/We met yesterday to a creative Workshop with topic on “Puzzle-Sticks and Flexigrass. We combined both materials in a minimalistique way. The Puzzle-Sticks served as a holder for our Flexigrass, so that we where able to let that Grass make beautiful curves.
Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu / Happy New Year / Ein gutes Neues Jahr
/We are back from our Christmas-holiday, had a wonderful vacation on the Mornington-Penninsula and in Melbourne. Not back jet to Ikebana-Classes but having fun with New-Years Ikebana-Arrangements.
Last Ikebana-Lesson for 2024
/Everybody is in Christmas-Mode, so we did different Christmas-Arrangments this week, all inspired from the festive New-Years decoration in Japan. The festive colors are: green, red, gold and white, these colors make us always happy and we did happy looking Arrangements.
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year and hope to see you in 2025.
Creative Group
/Our creative group met a little wile ago and the focus was on “bleeding heart” which Julie provided for all of us. It was a creativ morning with interesting results, thanks to Julie .
The last day of Spring-Ikebana-Course
/Everyone could choose their preferred lesson and worked it out. We did have quite a good selection, ranging from complementing an art work, over expressing a movement and reflection of water. It was a interesting, creativ morning with a lot of joy.
Music inspires Ikebana
/We are so proud to be part of the new Art Book Music Inspires Ikebana with our creation “O Fortuna”. Today we want to show the other submitted works for the Music “Ab Ovo” and for the Cello Suite Nr. 1.
Music inspires Ikebana
/On of our Pictures for the renowned Stichting Kunstbook, which we made half a year ago, is now part of that wondeful book. The topic was to install an Ikebana to classic music. For our published Ikebana we chose “Carmina Burana O Fortuna”. And here it is!
Water-Arrangments
/It´s getting hot here on the coast. Ther for we played around with water. If you are going to make an water-arrangement, you have to stick your hand in that container filled with water to place your material on the right place. That gives you that first cool feeling and the second you get by looking on your finished water-arrangement.
Master-class
/We would like to show you just a few examples from our experiments with the random-generator. This generator mad a choice of five different things to use for an arrangment: typ of container, flowers, branches or leaves and two types of non organic material. Two arrangements are made of: dry lotus, baby´s breath, wire and coal in a round container, the next two are designed from: triangular vase, monstera-leaves, branch or Iris-leave, Iris , plastic-foam. Flowers and branches could be subtitute if the are not avalible at the moment. It is so much fun, to compare that outcome.
Brisbane-Workshop Part 2
/Today we would like to show you a few more of the Arrangments made by the members of the Sogetsu-Brisbane Inc. at Bardon Hall two weeks ago.
Paperbark-Workshop for the Sogetsu-Ikebana-Group Brisbane
/15 Sogetsu-members signed up for the Paperbark-Workshop held in Bardon-Hall, a rustic venue, just right for our workshop. Everyone brought different paperbark to work with. Some very thick bark was used with the help of a stick upright or horizontal and the thin bark was carfully divided into very thin layers, soaked in water to create flowers, clouds or other wonderful things. We had a creativ, relaxt afternoon with beautiful results.
First autumm-arrangments of the year
/We started this week with the first autumm-arrangments of this year via online lessons. As it was easy for my German students to find adequate materials, it was hard for me to find somthing suitable. But thanks cooper-leave-bush and dried cotton-tree-leaves I was able to do it. Beside that, I was preparing for my first Saterday-workshop for a large group of Ikebana-ladys from the Sogetsu-Ikebana-Club in Brisbana. I will show you the pictures in the coming week.
Bamboo Plan "B"
/Splitting bamboo was our plan, just like we´ve done many times with green bamboo before. But the black bamboo resisted, even when we worked for half an hour very hard on the bamboo-cutter with a hammer. Then we gave up and did nice Bamboo-arrangements with unsplitted bamboo.
Bamboo-Container
/I was offered to cut a hugh black bamboo in my neighborhood. I was very happy about it and offered a bamboo-workshop for the Sogetsu-Brisbane-Inc. But the ladies are so bamboo spoiled that the said “o no not again“. So my students benefited from that matter and workt with bamboo for the first time. We developed simple but beautyful container and decorated them with springflowers from the garden. Also in our next workshop, we will work with bamboo, because this trunk was about 10 m high.
Workshop for the Coloundra floral-art-society
/We did a workshop for the members of the Coloundra-floral-art-society this week. The ladies brought their own material, but could also use the materials I offered. We started with a short explanation about Ikebana and a few principles. I demonstrated two different Arrangements, one with Paperbark, leaves and a single flower and one with branches and flowers. The ladies could choose one or the other and the did and even a thirt one with Paperbark and everything. We had a wonderful morning with lots of joy and laughter.
New Ikebana-course after the long winter break
/My long-time student Bernadette was happy to join the new course and designed beautiful arrangements as always. Also some new students found the way to our studio and did surprisingly very nice works.
Workshop with Paperbark
/We held a workshop for the members of the Nambour floral art society last Wednesday. The ladies are all expirienced in flower arranging and wanted to expand their floral horizons with Ikebana. We chose easy to find materials, like paperbark, palmleaves, farns and flowers from the garden. It was a bit tricky, becouse most of the container and kenzans were a little to small, but everyone had a good result and a lot of joy..
