Custom Work
Creating installations is one of my favourite parts of my artistic expression.
Years of designing large-scale floral installations taught me how to read a space and recognise its creative possibilities. Sometimes that becomes a ceramic floral wall, sometimes oversized symbols, sometimes a suspended piece, and sometimes something entirely unexpected.
Working an idea out together with someone, the connection and back-and-forth that shapes each project, that's the part I love most. Solving the creative puzzle of what feels right for a particular space, even when it seems impossible, is a gift. Some projects begin with a clear vision, others with a simple conversation and a lot of trust.
Either way, watching an idea evolve into something tangible and hearing “OMG, it’s even better than I imagined!” is exactly the kind of magic that gets me smiling.
Flower Installations
Delfines, Nuevo Vallarta
El Tigre, Nuevo Vallarta
The Process
I create the flower installations much the way I’d build an arrangement of fresh flowers. It begins with imagining the types I want : focal flowers, foliage, fillers, then making far more pieces than I’ll ever need: stems of different lengths and angles, leaves, petals, forms, so I'm sure I'll find just the right piece.
Just as every flower has its own face and feeling, I try to express that individuality in the clay. Sometimes I find myself contorting my own body as if I were that flower in the moment... an upward curl, a delicate vine carrying a single leaf, petals caught in the wind. It’s as though feeling it in myself lets it become that way in the clay.
Only once everything is made do I begin selecting and composing, placing each piece individually and responding to the space it will live in. The installation itself is as much an art form as the pieces, slow, meticulous work to stay as true as possible to the feeling of a living flower arrangement. The sweat beads forming on my brow just thinking about it.
What fascinates me is taking something as fleeting as a fresh flower and making it permanent... frozen moments in time, nature growing where it shouldn’t, beauty caught and held a little longer. Ultimately, they are my way of contemplating the nature of beauty as itself. I'm interested not only in beauty as an object, but in beauty as an act of expression, and in what happens when something unexpected finds hits place and belongs.