Designers’ living art impresses
A kaleidoscope of colour blossomed in the Chapel Gallery at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries last week with the opening of Blooming Art.
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The Flower Designers Club of Bunbury showcased traditional and contemporary floral techniques at the annual exhibition.
Art from the City of Bunbury collection are matched to arrangements by floral designers from around the South West in what has become a crowd favourite.
The centrepiece of the exhibition was an installation by the Flower Designers Club of Bunbury named Violet’s Washing Day.
Children’s clothes made of wire and sea wrack were hung from an old-fashioned washing line in the centre of the Chapel Gallery.
Winner of the Designer of the Year and Best in Show awards was Sue Wheatley, of Busselton, for her standing arrangement based around a wire frame.
Mrs Wheatley painstakingly cut squares of bark to cover the round frame found by her husband and used her home-grown orchids in the design.
“It’s the first time this orchid has flowered particularly well, ” she said.
Mrs Wheatley describes her artwork as “quite a traditional design”, with the bark ball giving it a contemporary edge.
The short and colourful show closed on Sunday.
Almost 950 people went to the exhibition.
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