NC Floral Design Exhibition Inspired by Art returns January 7-10, 2021
Design by Peggy Vineyard and Helene Pasin – 2020 1st place – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
2021 Art & The Bloom Itinerary
Exhibition General Admission, January 8th, 9th, 10th, 2021
January 8th – 10th, 9:00am-5:00pm
Thursday, January 7th, 2021 Special Event:
Meet the Designers Preview Party 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Enjoy meeting and greeting the designers, heavy hors d’oeuvres by EAST, music by Duke Ladd, harpist Julie Rehder and a stroll through the exhibit before the public opening on Friday.
Friday, January 8th, 2021 Special Sessions:
Afternoon Tea 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Enjoy an afternoon tea served in two courses while being entertained by a fashion show of jewels by the Pearl Girl Mariann Bauer; includes entry to the exhibition.
Enjoy an afternoon tea served in two courses while being entertained by a fashion show of jewels by the Pearl Girl Mariann Bauer; includes entry to the exhibition.
Flexibility in Floral Design 9:30 – 11:30 AM
Master designer Tammy Yow Russell will guide you in creating beautiful wearable floral art! (all supplies included). Includes entry to the exhibition.
Abstraction in Floral Design 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Enjoy learning the latest floral design abstraction techniques demonstrated by master designer Claudia Bates. Includes entry to the exhibition.
Saturday, January 9th, 2021 Special Sessions:
Afternoon Tea 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Enjoy a delicious afternoon tea served in two courses while being entertained by a fashion show of jewels by the Pearl Girl Mariann Bauer; includes entry to the exhibition.
Non-Breakable Creative Floral Design Container Workshop 9:30 – 11:30 AM
Master designer Claudia Bates will guide you in making a creative floral design container. (Includes all supplies) Includes entry to the exhibition.
Master designer Claudia Bates will guide you in making a creative floral design container. (Includes all supplies) Includes entry to the exhibition.
Miniature Floral Design Workshop 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Master designer Tammy Yow Russell will lead you in the art of miniature floral design. (Includes all supplies) Includes entry to the exhibition.
Sunday, January 10th, 2021 Special Session:
Afternoon Tea 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Enjoy a delicious afternoon tea served in two courses while being entertained by a fashion show of jewels by the Pearl Girl Mariann Bauer; includes entry to the exhibition.
Lecture and Book Signing 9:30 – 11:30AM
Orange You Glad You Can Grow Citrus, which features citrus trees that can be grown in zone 8 without protection, by renowned author and lecturer Frank Hyman. Includes a book signing and entry to the exhibition.
Orange You Glad You Can Grow Citrus, which features citrus trees that can be grown in zone 8 without protection, by renowned author and lecturer Frank Hyman. Includes a book signing and entry to the exhibition.
Botanical Illustration Workshop: The Language of Flowers by Patricia Savage 1:00 –3:00 PM
Since antiquity, flowers have had different meanings often suggested by their shape, fragrance, or color. We will explore the historical significance of a single species. Afterward, participants will paint petals using the dry-brush watercolor technique. (Includes all supplies) includes entry to the exhibition
Since antiquity, flowers have had different meanings often suggested by their shape, fragrance, or color. We will explore the historical significance of a single species. Afterward, participants will paint petals using the dry-brush watercolor technique. (Includes all supplies) includes entry to the exhibition
The Wilmington Art Association will be hosting a sales gallery all weekend.
Painting by Patricia Savage
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC – Leading floral designers in North and South Carolina will gather in Wrightsville Beach to showcase their floral creations inspired by fine art, Jan. 7-10, 2021.
The four-day Art & The Bloom exhibition and competition includes expert demonstrations and workshops in floral design. botanical illustration and art, jewelry fashion shows, gallery art sales by the Wilmington Art Association, and a horticultural presentation by Frank Hyman, renowned gardening lecturer and author, entitled “Orange You Glad You Grow Citrus.”
The New Hanover Garden Club and Blockade Runner Beach Resort will focus on public safety during the event. Measures include following the Governor’s guidelines to help prevent the spread of COVID 19, including temperature checks upon entering the resort, wearing of masks in public areas, limiting numbers of tickets, encouraging social distancing, and hand sanitizers offered in public places. In the event of cancellation due to increased COVID restrictions, tickets will be refundable.
Now entering its fourth year, the New Hanover Garden Club’s Art & The Bloom has become a highly anticipated event. This year’s artwork will come from private collections and the Wilmington Art Association. Floral designers receive their art assignment from a blind draw weeks before the event.
Judging this year is National Garden Club judge and Flower Show School Instructor Claudia Bates, as well as NC State Floral Association judge and instructor Tammy Yow Russell. Floral design winners receive a beautiful ribbon, a cash award, and bragging rights. The judges will be presenting floral design demonstrations and workshops.
Claudia Bates
Patricia Savage, a renowned botanical illustrator from Chapel Hill, will present a workshop entitled “The Language of Flowers.” Savage teaches botanical art and illustration at the UNC Botanical Gardens. She has also taught at the NC Museum of Natural Science and the NC Museum of Art. The workshop will explore the evolution of a single species over time and include painting petals using the dry brush watercolor technique.
Tammy Yow Russell will conduct a workshop on Miniature Floral Design, exploring the fascinating world of working with miniatures using combinations of ordinary and unusual natural materials to create tiny works of art. Her second workshop will feature wearable flowers, making flower crowns and unique flower accessories. Tammy is a multi-award-winning designer, including NC State Designer of the Year, Greensboro Triad Designer of the Year, Northern Piedmont Designer of the Year, and Southern Retail Designer of the Year in 2000. She is a three-time winner of the prestigious interpretive design NC Jim Treadaway Cup competition and was the second woman ever inducted into the NC Jim Treadaway Cup Hall of Fame in 2017. She has won many awards in her favorite design competition, Miniature Design, since 1994, and served as President of the Greensboro Triad Professional Florists Association in 2018, and as a director on the Board for the NC State Florists Association 2016 through 2019.
Claudia Bates, a National Garden Club Flower Show School Design Instructor, will demonstrate abstracted floral design techniques. Bates will also conduct a workshop on making a creative design container and filling it with a creative floral design.
Afternoon tea and a fashion show of jewels will be offered to feature Mariann Bauer, The Pearl Girl, and her beautiful, fashion-forward jewelry line.
New Hanover Garden Club, the organizer of Art & The Bloom, is federated through the National Garden Club and Garden Clubs of North Carolina. The event’s proceeds will benefit gardening projects and scholarships for nonprofit organizations. All activities will be held at the host hotel, Blockade Runner Beach Resort.
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2020
Art & The Bloom
Photo Gallery and Results
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC – Leading floral designers in North Carolina gathered in Wrightsville Beach January 9-12 to showcase floral creations inspired by fine art.
"We are so happy that Art & The Bloom was a success and enjoyed by so many," said Barb Bittler, Co-chair of the event. "We would like to thank our artists, floral designers, the Wilmington Art Association, our many sponsors and donors, and especially the Blockade Runner Beach Resort for their support. We look forward to the many good projects the New Hanover Garden Club will be able to support to give back to our community."
The Designing Divas from Florida, a five-member team of nationally accredited jurors and flower show school instructors, judged the competition. Here are the top floral designers in the 2020 Art & The Bloom competition:
1st Place
Peggy Vineyard and Helene Pasin
Cape Fear Garden Club, Wilmington, NC
2nd Place
Polly Kopka
Gardenerettes and New River Garden Club, Hubert, NC
3rd Place
Suzanne Tarry
Apex, NC
Best Use of Color
Marge Comer
Coastal Garden Club, Ocean Isle Beach, NC
People's Choice Award
Roxanne Thompson
Wilmington, NC
(see winner's photos in the gallery below)
The four-day Art & The Bloom exhibition and competitive judging included expert demonstrations and workshops in floral design and flower pounding, botanical illustration and art, millinery fashion shows, gallery art sales, and a presentation-book signing for Gardening with Confidence by Helen Yoest, award-winning garden writer and founder of Bee Better.
Hands-on sessions included floral design demonstrations and wedding flower designs by the Designing Divas; how to draw butterflies using colored pencils by botanical illustrator Linda Koffenberger of Chapel Hill; creating coastal-style woodland tabletop settings by floral designer Kim Fisher from Washington, DC; and, the art of flower pounding by artist Pat Carlson from Chocowinity, NC.
New Hanover Garden Club, the organizer of Art & The Bloom, is federated through the National Garden Club and Garden Clubs of North Carolina. The event’s proceeds will benefit gardening projects and scholarships for nonprofit organizations. All activities were held at host hotel Blockade Runner Beach Resort.
Contact:
Barb Bittler, Co-Chair
Art & The Bloom
910-616-0476
Robert B Butler
Communications | Public Relations
1st Place
Peggy Vineyard and Helene Pasin
Cape Fear Garden Club, Wilmington, NC
PRIMARY PLANT MATERIAL: purple statice, delphiniums, roses, calla lilies, green cymbidium orchids, light blue tweedum, cream lisianthus
Our flowers and arrangement were inspired by this beautiful painting reminiscent of Gustav Klimt with lush colors and traces of gold. Our challenge was deciding the appropriate flowers and container that would interpret and compliment the movement in the painting. The pedestal container is cracked gold, but gold leaf was added to a plastic liner inside the container to make it more visible. We used purple statice and delphinium on the left of the arrangement to compliment the height. We used roses and calla lilies to compliment the light orange circles. Below all of this we chose green cymbidium orchids for the green at the bottom of the painting. The many colors in this painting required the use of more specific colors and many flowers such as light blue tweedum and cream lisianthus, along with other appropriate fillers. We used light blue pipe cleaners to depict the squares at the bottom left and middle right of the painting.
Inspiration:
Barbara Bear Jamison
“Busy Bustling”
Oil and gold leaf, alcohol ink on panel
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Peggy Vineyard – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2nd Place
Polly Kopka
Gardenerettes and New River Garden Club, Hubert, NC
PRIMARY PLANT MATERIAL: gladiolas, delphiniums, dianthus green ball, palm leaves, New Zeland flax
When I first looked at this art piece I immediately thought “built with Legos”. It looks like Frank Lloyd Wright might have played with Legos and built this as a child. Then looking more closely it reminded me of some of the Frank Lloyd Wright architectural designs, mainly because of the squares, rectangles and cantilevered floors. I’ve taken those shapes and colors to create my design; modern home, modern design.
Inspiration:
Elena Wright
“Somewhere”
Glass Mosaic
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Polly Kopka – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
3rd Place
Suzanne Tarry
Apex, NC
PRIMARY PLANT MATERIAL: spray roses, delphinium, Limonium, cottom, snapdragons, stock, eryngium, grevillea, silver brunia, foraged mosses
In my memory box
Are things I hold most dear
Treasures from my childhood, Memories passed and near
Special things once collected
A string of grandmother’s pearls
Dreams of days gone by
When I was just a girl
I open up the box
Reminisce for a moment or day
When everything was innocence
And every day was play
Inspiration:
Livy Hitchcock
“Child’s Play”
Pastel
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Suzanne Tarry – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
Best Use of Color
Marge Comer
Coastal Garden Club, Ocean Isle Beach, NC
The choice of metalwork and flowers with vertical lines compliment the New York streetscape.
Inspiration:
Janice Castiglione
Janice Castiglione
“The Big Apple”
Watercolor
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
People's Choice Award
Station 27
Roxanne Thompson
Wilmington, NC
Inspiration:
Todd Lengyeltoti
“Meow”
Mixed media
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 People's Choice Award – Roxanne Thompson – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 People's Choice Award – Roxanne Thompson – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Set up day – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 07
Nancy Dickerson
Coastal Garden Club, Ocean Isle Beach, NC
Inspiration:
Todd Carignan
“Fresh Seafood 1”
Oil
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 20
Connie Jo Goodson
Rose of Sharon Garden Club, Beulaville, NC
Inspiration:
Abigail Warman
“First Picinic”
Oil
Oil
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 21
Noel Morris
Sweetgrass Southern Market, Ocean Isle Beach, NC
Inspiration:
Adrienne Watts
“Yesterday’s News”
Mixed Media
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 22
Linda Blankenship
Coastal Garden Club, Wilmington, NC
Inspiration:
Joan Croft Jones
“Out of Gear”
Metal and woods
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 23
Dee Ivey
The Plant Place, Wilmington, NC
Inspiration:
Ros Hancock
“Little Dancer”
Oil
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 29
Kim Cruz
Lewisville Garden Club, Tobaccoville, NC
Inspiration:
Melissa Wilgis
“Drifting”
Cyanotype Photogram
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 32
Linda McLendon
Lady Banks and Evergreen Garden Clubs, Dudley, NC
Inspiration:
Jeri Greenberg
“Breakfast in 3 Parts”
Pastel triptych
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 8
Diane Bauman
Lewisville Garden Club, Lewisville, NC
Inspiration:
Mary Welsh Austin
“Road Trip”
Acrylic
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 12
Sherry Jeffries
Coastal Garden Club, Bolivia, NC
Inspiration:
Sue Cunningham
“City Center”
Acrylic
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
Station 14:
Janet Warren
Cape Fear Garden Club, Wilmington, NC
Inspiration:
Mary E. Smith
Asian Influence
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 18
Trish Sumners
Lewisville Garden Club, Lewisville, NC
Inspiration:
George Pocheptsov
“Mermaids”
Gicl’ee on canvas
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 28
Katherine Wolf Webb
Wilmington, NC
Inspiration:
Ann Hair
“Strings”
Oil
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Set up day – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 30
Dot Balkcum
Harbor Island Garden Club, Wrightsville Beach, NC
Inspiration:
Tom Conway
Tom Conway
“Starfish-Macro View”
Photograph
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
Station 2
Barbara Walters
Rose of Sharon Garden Club, Jacksonville, NC
Inspiration:
Tracy Livingston Knox
“Passages”
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 13
Charles McLendon
Lady Banks and Evergreen Garden Clubs, Dudley, NC
Inspiration:
Harriet M. Forbis
“Hide and Seek”
Watercolor
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 15
Rachel Rawls
Lady Banks Garden Club, Dudley, NC
Inspiration:
Gail D. Smith
“First Arrival”
Oil on canvas
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Set up day – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 16
Sunshine Williams
Rose of Sharon Garden Club, Jacksonville, NC
Inspiration:
Kay Bilisoly
“Precious Metal”
Acrylic
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 17
Judy Albers
Westwood Garden Club, Winston Salem, NC
Inspiration:
Rose De Martini
“The Girl with the Red Bow”
Oil
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Set up day – Courtesy of Karen Pennington
Station 25
Pat McCartan
New Hanover Garden Club, Wilmington, NC
Inspiration:
Janet Johnson
“A Moment in Time”
Soft pastels
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
Station 26
Brittney Wells Brown
Verzaal’s Florist and Events, Wilmington, NC
Inspiration:
Jeff Chase
Jeff Chase
“Goat Herder”
Photograph on watercolor paper
Photo courtesy of Karen Pennington
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
2020 Art & The Bloom – Courtesy of Scott Bittler
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