Louesa Roebuck – Punk Ikebana: Reimagining the Art of Floral Design

Copperfield’s Books is thrilled to welcome Louesa Roebuck to Marin Country Mart for her stunning new book – Punk Ikebana: Reimagining the Art of Floral Design 

This is an outdoor event behind Copperfield’s Books that will be tented and heated and includes a backdrop of beautiful Bay Area views.

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration required due to limited seating.

Floral designer Louesa Roebuck shows you how to make transcendent eco-luxe compositions with seasonal flora foraged from the West Coast

“The way of the flowers” has been studied for centuries, but as acclaimed author, artist, and floral designer Louesa Roebuck demonstrates, one needs to understand the rules in order to bend them.

In Punk Ikebana, Louesa composes stunning arrangements and installations that unite the cultural traditions and elegance of Japanese perspective with exhilarating freedom from convention. Working with seasonally foraged, gleaned, and sourced flora from various regions of California, Louesa reveals how cinematic floral sculptures can be created by embracing the abundance right outside your door.

Inviting nature’s often-overlooked treasures into your space means improvising in a moment of time, in a particular place. Exuberant compositions are created with what is on hand, establishing a harmonious dialogue with the flora, space, color, vessels, and textiles readily available.

Aligning her deep commitment to the environment with her love of foraging, gleaning, and sourcing regionally, Louesa inspires you to cultivate your own vision and invite the wonders of the natural world into your home.

Louesa Roebuck, author of the critically acclaimed Foraged Flora, is a multimedia and multigenre creative, a floral artist, printmaker, painter, textile designer, and curator. She has collaborated and created flora installations using only local and seasonal foraged and gleaned materials for clients such as Vivienne Westwood, John Baldessari, Todd Selby, Carolyn Murphy, GOOP, Nickey Kehoe, Blackman Cruz, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. Her work has been featured in numerous national and international magazines and media, including but not limited to Wired, Vogue, the New York Times, Nowness, Cabana Magazine, C magazine, Remodelista, Sunset, and Martha Stewart Living. She lives in Ojai, California, in Chumash Territory.