“I don’t know how you describe romance actually but some objects have it, they just have something that is more than themselves. If you’re interested in them you can communicate it and they can communicate it too, and it’s just magic, it’s just how life is.”
-Robert Kime
The Flower Hunter: Seasonal Flowers Inspired by Nature and Gathered from the Garden
A beautiful guide to floral design and gardening with exquisite naturalistic flower arrangements and stunning photographs - an inspirational journey through a year in a garden and artist’s studio set among the mountains of north Wales.
Get tips on everything from drying garden flowers to designing floral arrangements. The flower hunter will encourage you to find your own creativity and help it to blossom.
The Flower Hunter: Creating a Floral Love Story Inspired by the Landscape
In The Flower Hunter: Creating a Floral Love Story inspired by the Landscape, Lucy Hunter invites us to join her on a personal journey to the places and spaces that she loves best, and which inspire her work as a creative floral artist and garden designer.
The landscape and nature have provided inspiration for artists for a millennia. But in our effort to fulfill societies expectations for a busy and productive life how often do we take the time to ‘stop and stare’ for a while and let nature in all her extraordinary guises inspire and refuel our creativity?
Following on from her first book, ‘The Flower Hunter; gathered from the garden’, Lucy invites us to journey with her to some of the places and spaces that inspire and inform her work as a creative floral artist and garden designer in the studio.
From the scale and drama of the mountains, to the changing light and atmosphere at the Coast, the romance and nostalgia of the countryside and the interwoven lives we have cultivated with nature in our urban places.
This is about those hidden stories in the landscape, how we connect to them daily. It is how we can all take inspiration from nature and the landscape and how to scale it down to fill our homes and lives.
We are encouraged to pause and look. Observe the detail and fill our minds and soul with the greatest possibilities for filling our world with floral arrangements, creativity and beauty. There are projects for you to try at home, lavish photography and gentle musings throughout.
Reviews
‘The title captures what I adore about Lucy Hunter's second book. Each composition tells the story of the place and time in which its comprising elements grew. Each is a love letter to the natural process, the struggle for life, and the refined beauty those challenges create. Beyond the step by step of arranging flowers, Lucy gives access to her conceptual process. The book just as much tracks a very beautiful internal landscape. Then to understand not only did she design all of the pieces with blooms she grew herself, but also styled and shot took my admiration to awe.’
- Max Gill of Max Gill Design, San Francisco