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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

Floral Art Demonstrations

The audiences at Floral Art Demonstrations are made up of talented (and much admired) floral art enthusiasts. That means they are already interested in what you have to say and will gasp at the mere sight of a spectacular flower but it is still your responsibility as a demonstrator to come up with an engaging (and new) concept.

Mud

Mud!!! Floral Art Demonstration at the Rondebosch Flower Club, Cape Town, South Africa

Many demonstrators distinguish between an “entertaining demonstration” and a “teaching demonstration”. With such a subject specific audience I believe learning is entertaining.

Mud demonstration

When I demonstrate I focus on sharing the art of contemporary floral design, as I see it.

It is ALWAYS an honour to be asked to demonstrate. Your audience took time away from their family/work/busy schedule to see you.

Conversation

For me the great goal is to start a conversation. I work hard to create a demonstration that will challenge the audience to think about their own work.

Demonstration

For my Mud!!! demonstration, I wanted to create a fantasy design that captures the imagination. I wanted to introduce the concept of using growing plants as design elements.

For more pictures of my demonstrations visit my Training pages or follow these links:

Mud!!! Floral Art Demonstration at the Rondebosch Flower Club

A Floral Fable Design demonstration at the Capilano Flower Arranging club

A Floral Art Demonstration by Floral Trends Design Group

Easter Parade Demonstration and Accessory Workshop

Garden Workshop and Demonstration

Just Right! Floral Art demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society club meeting

Plant material used in my Mud demonstration:

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Favourite Flowers

Lentinula edodes

Shiitake Mushrooms

Passiflora

Granadilla, passionflower, passion vines

Phalaenopsis

Phalaenopsis, Moth orchid

Related Designs

9 April 2011 Mud!!! Floral Art Demonstration at the Rondebosch Flower Club, Cape Town, South Africa

So much goes into one stage design that I thought it would be worthwhile to break up the design elements and explore each in more detail.

5 April 2011 Mud!!! Floral Art Demonstration at the Rondebosch Flower Club

My demonstration looked at ways to use mud to enhance floral art.

30 March 2016 Floral Designs From Around The World

A demonstration presented at Canada Blooms, Toronto, Canada I was invited to share the stage with designers from Bermuda, United Kingdom, France, South Africa, Barbados, United...

12 October 2016 I found it this way: Bird nest design

This was the fourth design I did in my "I found it this way" floral art demonstration

9 November 2016 All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate) floral art demonstration at the BC Floral Art Society

A design demonstration looking at preparing for competition designs: thinking bigger