Finally we can announce our Natural Creativity Challenge winner. The idea of this Challenge was to get people who have never been involved in Ikebana (or in any other type of flower arranging) to try making a flower composition. The main point is actually not the flower arrangement as such. It is more about restoring our connection with nature by communicating with flowers, branches and other plant material.

For the challenge folks were given a picture of a waterfall in a forest and were asked to reflect their impressions of the image in a flower arrangement. Simple… or may be not? Well, I did get feedback from some participants that it was simply too difficult and they are missing the “finesse”.

But with all that our winner Asya U. have done a great job of reflecting the mood, the colors and the movement of the original image. And she did not have any prior experience! Well done. Here is the picture and I’ll talk about the prize in a minute.

The prize is a 1 month free access to the Online Ikebana membership website. This will be a great resource for Asya to explore Ikebana principles, techniques and get inspiration for her creations.

For the rest of the Ikebana Web followers I can offer a link to some limited free training material courtesy of the Online Ikebana. Click on the link, register your e-mail and you will get instant access to one free lesson for beginners and to one for advanced Ikebana students.

Take this opportunity to explore your creativity further. Try it out and send me pictures of your arrangements 🙂

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