Floral Collaboration Still Life

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, (Ophelia) 1908 – John William Waterhouse and Cornelis Van Spaendonck are some of the paintings or painters who inspire me. I was also inspired by the house we live in which was built in 1867. We have a beautiful coal range in our dining room. 
I was brought up by keen gardeners, especially my mum who passed on a passionate love of peonies, roses and instilled in me a need to stop and smell the roses sometimes. To try and notice the little things. I have developed over the past 6 years a passion in gardening myself and although I enjoy all our flowers and adore making them I still love the roses and peonies the most!!!Between World Custard Invasion and this wee project I have been very quiet! I am hoping to get a couple of new tutorials out I have been working on very soon! 
About a year ago Ashley from Little Vintage Baking Company contacted me asking if I would be interested in joining a group of international Floral sugar artists in a Floral Art project. Our goal was to make the flowers look like a still life painting from 1800 to 1900.  
We live in a beautiful old house that was built in 1867.  And most of my favourite artists like John William Waterhouse come from the same era. I am also a huge fan of the old dutch masters.
So I created "Sugar" Roses, including English Roses, Rose Leaves,  Peonies, Sweet Peas, a dahlia. All of the flowers I created from real ones in our garden and I have featured these in the main photo here.
Each individual flower has been made from ones in our garden. We have beautiful Old English roses which were planted when the house was built.  I have used the Dead flowers in my 18th Century Painting. All sugar flowers are made freeform with no cutters with my unique method. 
35 artists all over the world who use different methods came together to create a Still life work of art in sugar. Artists included in this collaboration all have different styles, Incredible award winning artists Like The  Calli Hopper From www.facebook.com/CalliCreation/  And The amazing Christine Craig fromwww.facebook.com/Lalavande/ 
are also part of this collaboration. It was an honour to be part of the group.
​Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, (Ophelia) 1908 – John William Waterhouse and Cornelis Van Spaendonck are some of the paintings or painters who inspire me. I was also inspired by the house we live in which was built in 1867. We have a beautiful coal range in our dining room. 
I was brought up by keen gardeners, especially my mum who passed on a passionate love of peonies, roses and instilled in me a need to stop and smell the roses sometimes. To try and notice the little things. I have developed over the past 6 years a passion in gardening myself and although I enjoy all our flowers and adore making them I still love the roses and peonies the most!!!
I did fear I wouldn't have time to finish the piece with international travel, food-shows, world custard invasion missions, kids and teaching, but I was ecstatic to finish it and photograph it in time!!! 
To see the whole Collaboration Go to www.facebook.com/stilllifeflorals/ And to see all the work on Instagram go to www.instagram.com/stilllifefloralscollaboration/

Tutorial on this Pink English Rose coming soon!
I hope you have enjoyed looking at my blog and I wish you the sweetest week.
Huge Sugar Hugs Lisa
PS: Let me know if you would like to see a video of some of my garden and real flowers! And I can 
make a blog showing you what inspires me!