Lucy Ellis was the demonstrator at the January meeting of Gerrards Cross Flower Club. Lucy is a National demonstrator and the title of her demonstration was “Picture This”.

Lucy wanted to study art when she was young and her designs were inspired by paintings and artists that she loved. The first was melting clock and Mae West wax lips by Salvador Dali. Others were by Vincent Van Gogh, Jackson Pollack, Monet and David Hockney. I have shown Lucy’s depiction of David Hockney’s double portrait painting of Mr and Mrs Clark. This was staged in a pink bowl and stand with large sticks covered in wool, with ferns, fatsia leaves and nandina berries. The flowers were a mixture of pink, yellow and gold roses, spray carnations topped by tall pink anthuriums. I have shown a photograph of it below.

The members competition was entitled “Winter Sparkle”. There were some lovely entries shown below. Lucy’s arrangement is the first image.

The next meeting is on 17th February at 1.45pm when Jackie Paige will be demonstrating flowers entitled “Connections”. Visitors are welcome to attend the meeting for a small fee of £8.

Below are the members competition entries, “Winter Sparkle”