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The designers
Catherine Foxwell / Floral Evolution
Catherine Foxwell is a wedding and events florist based in South East London
Catherine started her floristry journey in 2015 after doing a two-year City and Guilds diploma in floristry which allowed her to explore her creativity and learn all the fundamental practices of floristry.
After freelancing in the industry working with a number of top London florists, Catherine decided to set up her own business and Floral Evolution was born.
Catherine loves to support up and coming businesses, especially ones that are unrepresented in their fields, and her love of colour and structure informs her designs.
Joanna Game
Joanna Game is a botanical artist with a studio on Dartmoor, Devon.
Her work is informed by seasons and a sense of place, with Dartmoor’s wild landscapes – its woods, hedgerows, rivers and moor – providing her with inspiration and a larder from which to forage, adding a little wild to locally grown flowers for teaching, photography and design. After 15 years of event floristry, Jo set up Beltane: a creative retreat for those who like her are inspired by the natural world. Taking place at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, guests arrive to barns full of flowers and all the tools they might need to facilitate their creativity. They spend the weekend using the energy and beauty of spring to paint, draw, arrange and photograph flowers.
Layla Robinson
Layla creates her unique art using materials collected from nature combined with everlasting flowers grown in her garden on the Welsh borders. She likes to tell a story through her pieces, so they deliver a subtle message using the medium of flowers and nature as a universal language of beauty and texture. She lets the wild unpredictability of nature and its relationship with humans inspire and guide her ideas, leading to new and unexpected designs. She has featured on TV several times, worked with leading brands, festivals, venues, and galleries, as well as many private clients over the years, and has created a book, Everlasting Blooms, published earlier this year by Greenfinch/Quercus books.
Millie Richardson
Founder of Millie Richardson Flowers, Millie began her career in marketing for various luxury watch and jewellery brands, but found herself increasingly enchanted by the floral aspect of event production and design. Millie has since established her floral design studio which is based in the Cotswolds where she lives with her young family, and creates beautiful flowers for weddings, events, and private commissions throughout the UK.
Her signature style blends seasonal floral ingredients and a riot of colour, to create captivating, romantic displays that transform spaces into botanical wonderlands. Millie’s displays set the scene, evoke emotion, and leave a lasting impression.
Stuart Fenwick
Stuart Fenwick was born the son of a hill shepherd and haberdasher in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland. A 4th generation fiddle player, he found himself working in a local flower shop at 15. After studying folk music and ethnomusicology at Newcastle university, he continued his journey within the flower world across The North East, Edinburgh and London, before pursuing his own projects and freelancing for numerous florists within the UK and beyond. Based on a 42ft narrowboat, he has crafted a passion for sustainability, local produce and building community, with an emphasis on connection to nature, which is reflected in his own practice and approach to all aspects of his life.