It is not officially winter until next month here. However, on the coast in the last week the temperatures have dropped. What has really made it feel wintery is the wind-chill that has made it necessary for me to rug up.
Grey skies and strong wind from the south do produce a wintery feel.
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The exercise I set for my senior students last week was to make an ikebana incorporating fruiting branches with some "unconventional material" (artificial material).
Ellie used painted wire mesh for her "unconventional material", with red dwarf Nandina domestica leaves and a branch with two Pomegranates, Punica granatum.
Maree's exercise was from the Book 3/4 curriculum, 'a composition of curved lines'. She used eucalyptus stems that were bent and arched across a suiban with two contrasting lines of Heliconia, psittacorum. This is also an example of an ikebana in a suiban without a kenzan.
Follow through this link to see some photos of the exhibition organised by Emily Karanikolopoulos, which finished yesterday after its second week.
A neighbour had just given me a bag of beautiful bright orange Persimmons, Diospyros kaki. Although they were not on a branch I decided I could use them in a non-naturalistic ikebana. I used bamboo skewers to secure a small mass of them at the mouth of this black vase to which I added a second mass of gathered Liquidambar, Liquidambar styraciflua, leaves. Then I placed two stems of Miscanthus seed heads from the garden at an angle giving the ikebana a different texture and additional height.
Greetings from Christopher
8th May 2022
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