Happy New Year 2020

Wishing you a healthy, happy New Year!

Hata Sensei said Happy New Year to all of you!

My New Year arrangement in class

Another New Year arrangement 

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Art in Bloom - Interpretation with Contemporary Art

Art in Bloom at the Delaware Contemporary art museum is an exhibit featuring floral arrangements created by members of Ikebana International of the Philadelphia Chapter. The arrangements are designed to complement and correspond to the contemporary art, on display from 12/5 to 12/8/2019 in the Delaware Contemporary art museum. 
My choice of painting is by artist Peter Wayne Lewis. With Jamaican roots, he studied painting in the United States. He is a tenured professor of painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. His work is inspired by the world of jazz (his father was a jazz musician), and by famous Chinese masters of calligraphy with Buddhism influence.

Below was my Ikebana arrangement in interpretation of his painting. I got the chance to meet the artist. Prof. Lewis was very pleased with my arrangement and said I interpreted it very well too. It made me very happy!

By artist Peter Wayne Lewis's "Monk Time #1", 2013
Acrylic on Linen

My arrangement interpretation

First tried at home

Art in Bloom

Here were the other members' arrangements with their choices of paintings. There were five artists exhibiting their many art works at the museum, only twenty some paintings chosen by Ikebanists.

Below were some arrangements that interpreted the art pieces very well.