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Arrangements can be customised to suit the budget(min 50$),occasions, place settings etc. Our qualified, experienced artists will be happy to assist you with your plans. Call us for a free consultation or more info!
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PHONE: +65 91732881
EMAIL: Ikebanaflower1@gmail.com
about artists
Sripriya Ganesh is a trained Ikebana artist having spent more than four years under Mrs. Kazue Kote Kim, a very renowned teacher of Ikebana and holds a Second grade teaching certificate which is a senior level, from the Sogetsu School, Tokyo, Japan. She has participated in a number of events organized by Sogetsu Association, Singapore and the Ikebana International Singapore.
Susan SolomonBorn in Cape Town, South Africa
Susan’s interest in the arts started early when she spent time painting and drawing at home, and later attended an art school in Cape Town. She was educated as a Dental Hygienist in England.
She went to Sydney, Australia in the early 80’s and did part time art courses. She attended The School of Colour and Design. Later, after moving to San Francisco, she continued on at Berkley University.
Now in Singapore she has more time to devote to the arts and has developed as a potter, painter, and is working towards becoming a Master at Ikebana. Susan spent 2 years doing an Arts Course at N.A.F.A
about ikebana
The introduction of this floral art called Ikebana is based on the adoption of Buddhist faith of placing flowers before the Buddhist spirits and also as a pious past time for the priests. Another fascinating fact is the firs teachers of ikebana in Japan are the Chinese in the sixth century.
Initial flower compositions were quite primeval in nature and kept getting modified as time went by. A more structured form of floral art evolved to add more meaning to the tea ceremony during the time of Prince Regent Yoshimasa. The arrangement of flowers have always been regarded as an occupation for the learned, aristocrat and and nobility.
The habitual art of ikebana practice endows the practitioner with certain virtues like creativity, gentleness, selflessness etc.
The male and female forms of the Chinese philosophy are constantly applied to distinguish contrasting forms, surfaces and other different characters in composition when they are paired or grouped. The more aggressive feature in comparison is referred as the male and the subtle or less of a contrast is called a female. Interestingly in the western art such comparisons are made for architecture.
This art has evolved by different styles introduced by different schools to a very modern form that exists today.
Courtesy and adaptation from "The flowers of Japan and the art of floral arrangements" by Conder.J.Josiah
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