We talk to …
Tricia Paoluccio
ild Photos: Danielle W
We are delighted to be able to talk to artist Tricia Paoluccio, whose metier is pressed flowers. Besides elaborate dresses for Oscar de la Renta, she creates beautiful paintings or covers piano grand pianos with her pressed beauties.
Please tell us your name, where you are from and your profession! My name is Tricia Paoluccio and I am a professional actor and an artist, living in NYC.
How did you get into flower pressing as an art form? I grew up on an almond farm, in Modesto CA. My family always had beautiful flowers growing and when I was a teenager my mom bought me a little book on making pressed flower greeting cards. I was so inspired that my brother built me a flower press, which I still have to this day, and I started pressing the flowers I had around our farm. I began card making back in the 1990s and started selling them when I moved to NYC to pursue my goal of becoming an actress. sister-mag.com
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