Brenna Robinson
Flowers, with their textures and colors, can be the medium through which both the artist and the object are revealed.
Beckoning Blooms owner Brenna Robinson draws from her childhood in flora-rich Papa New Guinea, where her formative years in a multicultural community began. Beckoning Blooms seeks to shape and transform the natural beauty of flowers in a celebration of abundance and communion between people and the natural world. Brenna's designs marry the human form with the floral arrangement, expressing the unique beauty of each.
Having previously worked in the media of ceramics and wire, Brenna's move to floral art is enhanced by her abilities and ideas from the art-studio world: the temporality of the plants and the materiality of the understructures aptly reflects the idea of beauty alive within the brevity of natural things. For ten years, Brenna made floral arrangements for weddings, creating art that spanned from upscale weddings to stunning National Park elopements. Brenna has recently been exploring wearable flowers, which suggest a tighter connection between the person and the natural world; these wearable flowers work particularly well when she can connect the flowers to the specific flora of the venue.
Brenna recognizes her many privileges and creates works that increase the visibility of those who are not frequently represented in mainstream media: thus her new artistic campaign, Beauty Without Borders, pushes back against our limitations in imagining the potential roles of flowers, gender, and form. In short, this art recognizes that people, like flowers, are of multitudinous variety, each rich and precious.
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Wearable Floral Art
August 07, 2023