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COLOUR PLAY
Winter colour play Porters Paints transform interior and exterior spaces with their unique paint products and finishes - check out the Porters Paint website and explore their endless range of colours and specialty finishes. Our winter colour play accents just a few Porters Paint colours as backdrops for floral designs created by few of our talented Aussie florists. www.porterspaints.com @porterspaints
Floral design @trillefloral & photo : @laurareidphoto
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Editors Note As a flower lover in the audience and a huge fan of Sean Cook’s talented floral work - I can honestly say that I have unashamedly stalked Sean through his floral career – why? because I admire every design – whether large all small – Sean’s designs have a special balance and movement to them –always premium materials – presented beautifully and often with an outstanding use of his signature love for colour. For more than a decade – I along with other flower lovers have watched Sean’s outstanding talent grow and flourish. Attracted to visual merchandising when he left school it’s obvious that Sean was attracted to the thought of hands on – visual creative work and his depth of experience over time - coupled with his passion and hard work to create exciting concepts and installations for his clients - makes him one of the most sought after and inspiring florists in Australia. Sean has hosted a few workshops in his studio space over the last year and if you enjoy and admire his work take yourself to one of these workshops it’s an incredible opportunity to not only meet this warm and generous man but learn a few technical tips and techniques from one of the industry’s best.
Floral design : @mrcooktheflorist Image : @blumenthalphotography
FLOWERSHOP
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FLOWERSHOP
For all enquiries please contact 0424 696 163, orders@thegroundsfloralsbysilva.com.au or visit online at : www.thegroundsfloralsbysilva.com.au
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Foraged Flora + Foliages Foraging as the cool winter weather descends is a challenge. There are far less choices. It certainly gets harder as the plants are forced into a hibernation of sorts waiting for the warmth of spring to generate new growth. Thanks to a glorious sun filled autumn I have the luxury of the last of the roses and the long, floaty frost-bitten grass.
This combination of the juicy, sweet roses and the dry, crunchy grass, ah I love it so much. They are both so feminine in their very distinct ways. I’m probably more of a dry grass frond than a rose and as such am very pleased to see more and more images of dried floral elements being mixed in with fresh. It is somewhat validating to see these wrinkled versions of beauty – not full-blown dried flower arrangements al la Kenneth Turner 1987 – thank goodness – but just a hint of them in amongst the floral fecundity out there on the internet.
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“Foraging As The Cool Winter Weather Descends Is A Challenge”
“Has Whisk Will Travel”
Gillian Bell | Image : @the_lane
GILLIAN BELL organic cake artisan Gillian Bell believes your wedding cake is the most special cake in your life so it deserves to be made with all the love, attention and special ingredients the occasion deserves. Approaching baking like an artisan, bringing the romance of the kitchen garden and the hedgerow to the creation of her cakes, sourcing the best, seasonal ingredients, mixing cakes by hand in vintage baking bowls with home-made wooden spoons. Cakes with flavours - like raspberry and rose, fig and violet, elderflower and strawberry, lemon and lavender, dark chocolate and cumquat and filled with homemade curds, preserves and organic buttercreams. Made “naked” or finished with a light dusting of icing sugar, freshly made soft frostings, buttercreams or couverture chocolate ganaches (no fondant icing), and simply decorated with edible flowers organically grown in Gillian’s garden or sourced locally on location. Gillian cooks her cakes with organic,seasonal and local produce. When commissioned to cook a cake in another country Gillian seeks out local producers to meet her genuine commitment to cook with the best ingredients.
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Keep up to date with Gillian online @gillianbellcake and her website www.gillianbellcake.com.au
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“Oil painting is an age old process - a contemplative process Leanne loves”
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keep up to date with Leanne’s work @leannemthomas
FLORAL DESIGN BY STYLIST CAITLIN MELLING @CAITLINMELLING
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Connect with like minded flower lovers @theflowerseekers or contact : theflowerseekers@gmail.com 0428 842 096