Artist Rebecca Louise Law takes her skills as a florist to the next level:
Rebecca Louise Law is known for her breathtaking installations that consist of thousands of hanging flowers suspended overhead. Last February, she was commissioned by London’s Garden Museum to create a temporary, site-specific work for their Floriculture: Flowers, Love and Money exhibition. 3,500 multicolored roses were hung on copper wire and suspended in the central part of the historic building. Visitors were invited to walk beneath the ethereal canopy.
In an interview last summer, she offered insight into the field:
You work a lot with dried flowers…
There are certain flowers that look really beautiful and ethereal dried rather than zingy, fresh and bang in your face, which I do like, but I really enjoy the process of preserving and prolonging the experience of that flower. Most of my work’s a physical thing, you’re surrounded by it, you can touch it rather than view it in a vase, out of reach. I suppose I want people to notice flowers, because you can walk into a room and not really register them; if you’ve seen the same traditional arrangements the whole of your life you don’t truly consider what you’re seeing. …
Florists repeatedly top job satisfaction polls – why do you think this is?
For me, the satisfaction comes from that fact that there’s a start and finish to each job, and because the season’s change, your creations are always changing. When I was a florist, I could get satisfaction ten times in one day by doing a beautiful bouquet and pleasing people – a guy comes in who’s got no idea what he wants to buy for his girlfriend and you have to do some detective work – are they a classic, elegant or arty? You say all these different words and they go: ‘oh yeah that one!’
See more of Law’s work here.
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