Neuigkeiten aus meiner Ikebana Welt. An welchen Blumen und Materialien ich gerade Freude habe, womit ich und meine Schüler gerade arbeite, was mich beschäftigt und was ich tolles für meinen Ikebana Unterricht entdecke.
Immer frisch und immer mit Herz.
Jeweils ein Meister der Ikenobu-Schule und ein Meister einer anderen Ikebana-Schule gestalteten gemeinsam auf der Bühne ihre Arrangements mit den gleichen Materialien, aber jeder im Stil seiner Schule. Ein interessantes und gelungenes Experiment.
Zu unserer großen Freude sind heute die Photos vom 2. Teil unseres Koryu-Toyokai-Workshop angekommen, von denen ich einige ausgesucht habe und zu Ihrer Freude auf unsere Webseite setze. Yuko und ich denken gerne an unsere intensiven, kreativen Seminartage in Naurod zurück.
We did moon-arrangements last week. The rising moon stands for spring, full moon for summer and the decreasing moon for autumm. We are just on the transition from spring to summer, so the students did both versions. For the students without a moon-container, Ulla prepared a moon-Version out of a thick cardboard, which was easy to make and the results where stunning.
Meine langjährigen Schüler, jetzt unter der Leitung von Ulla Steuter, erarbeiteten interessante Arrangements aus grünen Bambusstangen, Bambuswurzeln und frischen Blumen. Der Bambus in Frau Steuters Garten hatte längst die Hauptrolle übernommen und überwucherte andere wertvolle Pflanzen, so dass er entfernt werden musste. Die Wurzeln wurden mühevoll ausgegraben, geteilt, gesäubert und getrocknet und sind eine wunderbare Ergänzung zu unserem heutigen Thema. Bei einer anschließenden Feierstunde erhielt Ulla Steuter ihr “Sogetsu-Lehrerzeugnis” und Jiachi Fan das Zeugnis zum Abschluss des vierten Lehrbuches.
Wir durften wunderschöne kreative Tage auf unserem jährlichen Ikebana-Kongress im Wilhelm Kempff Haus erleben. Meine Freundin Yuko und ich gaben drei Workshops ihrer Koryu Toyokai Schule mit traditioneller Vorführung. Unsere Teilnehmerinnen genossen die entspannte Atmosphäre erarbeiteten Bambus-Arrangements, drei Grundstile der Koryu Toyokai Schule und übten sich in der traditionellen Art der Vorführung.
We made sculptures from wire, newspaper, a lot of glue and very thin paperbark. Orchid tubes were integrated, so that we could work with flowers. Together with a small container we created imaginative Ikebana-Arrangements
This time our group met at a brandnew house in a rural environment with lots of native plants around which we could use. The theme was a three-dimensional style without container, without Kenzan, only 1 or 2 small vases for the fresh material allowed. We used paper-bark, wild hibiscus, drum-sticks, packing material, wild berries, Salvia and a few more.
Book 5, Lesson 19 is asking for “Relief-Work” made from dried plant-materials. On of my master-students get in the mood and so she did four different relief works, two with a matching arrangment on the side. I would like to support her enthusiasm and show you all the works she has done on this topic.
One of my talented students in Germany came to class with a deep cut in her right hand, with a bandage and could only move two fingers. But she managed to do a wonderful Moribana Variation 1, slanting with apple branches and protea-flowers manly with her left hand. My master-class student did a tsuribana with asparagus and spring-flowers and hang it up very clever on a clothesline. My tsuribana is made to hang up in a window.
We were happy to follow Bettina´s invitation to held a workshop in her beautifully decorated studio, named Motorship, in Noosaville. It was a lot of fun to work with these young motivated ladies, how practist Ikebana for the first time and the results were impressive.
We enjoyed to design our Easter-Arrangements with all kinds of dry branches, beautiful green material, mainly yellow flowers but a few light blue ones, Xanadu-leaves, egg-shells and little quail-eggs. Happy Easter to all of you!
We take a short break and will be back at beginning of April.
Once a month we meet with three ladies from Sogetsu-Queensland to create free arrangements with things we have found over the month. This time, we focust mainly on dried materials, like a hollow tree trunk, bark and interesting branches. We combined theme with some lives and a few fresh flowers.
We focust on table-decoration this week using flat containers, card-bords or direct on a table close. It was fun to work with carfully chosen delicate materials in rarely used containers. For the card-bords we used mother-in-low tongues, together with fruits and a little bit of Tipuchina.
We also did the creativ-class with two Ladies from Sogetsu Brisbane, which was very productiv. The pictures of that you will see next week.
We are encouraged in Book 5 to make an arrangment in two steps, the first step with dry material outside a container and in the second step put it together with fresh materials in a vase. One of this arrangments was made from my students in Germany with vines and one was made in Australia with materials we could finde in the back-yard. Both are very different, but both are interesting and fun to work with.
My German students worked with unvonventional materials such as wire, clothspins, styrofoam or straws. To make an interesting Ikebana without a flower, leave or a branch is allways a challenge, but all students mastered it with joy. Like Sofu Teshigahara said: if I am in a desert, I make Ikebana with sand.
We were invited to hold an Ikebana-Demonstration at the Coolum Womens Shed. The days bevore the event were filled with searching for materials in neighbors garden, in bush and fields and in the supermarkets. The Flower shops are way to expensiv here. My assistend Bernadette, the spectators and my self had a good time, everyone was happy and smiling. We are pleased that we could show our passion to Ikebana.
We managed to held our first Ikebana-Class in 2024 by 34 degree and a humidity from 91 %. A big challenge not only for the flowers but also for the students. We dont have aircon in my Studio, so we went upstairs workt in the livingroom with carfully chosen material, such as Rosmarin, Fern, Golden Candle-Bush, Zinnias and created nice table-arrangements with a lot of joy.
We are on vacation, but we have of course provided a little bit of New-Years-Dekoration in the traditionell colors; red, green and white to your enjoyment. See you soon.
We wish all our Ikebana friends a merry and peacefull Christmas. We take a short brake and see each ather, to going on with our Ikebana jorney, beginning of 2024 totaly relaxt, refreshed and full of power . That is my wish for all of you, my dear friends. Our Christmastree is made from Flamboyant tree and Spinifex.
Wir ließen uns von den exotischen Materialien, die wir am Strand gefunden haben und die Freunde uns zukommen ließen, inspirieren, kreierten einen Sternenregen aus Spinifex, setzten Rückstände der Dattelpalme in Szene, sprühten Aspidistra-Blätter gold, ließen Zweige der Norfolktanne Weihnachtskugeln halten und erfreuten uns an den wunderschönen Strelitien, die hier gerade in fast allen Gärten in Blüte stehen.
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