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Fiona Inglis

  • Pyrus Botanicals
  • Flower designer
  • Pencaitland, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Fiona Inglis Flower designer
©Pyrus

Scottish flora for creativity

  • • Fiona grows most of the botanicals she uses in her designs
  • • Her aim is to underline the already existing beauty of flowers and plants
  • • She often collaborates with other artists to create multi-sensory experiences

Everything started with roses. After graduating from art college in ceramics, Fiona Inglis took a part-time job in an Edinburgh flower shop. There, a local supplier used to bring garden grown roses that she describes now as "out of this world, so highly scented that one deep inhale could sweep you off your feet and take you somewhere else." At the shop, she fell in love with floristry for its variety, connection to nature and its ability to bring instant joy to people. She decided to grow her own flowers. This was key to Fiona developing her style, that soon stepped outside the traditional realms of floristry and became more explorative and sculptural. In 2011 she set up her studio, Pyrus Botanicals, with a business partner who recently left, and in 2015 bought a nearly abandoned Victorian walled garden on the outskirts of Edinburgh, where she has been growing most of the materials used in her designs, with gentle practices and no chemicals.

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Works

  • ©Gabriela Silveria
  • ©Gabriela Silveria
  • ©Gabriela Silveria
  • ©Caro Weiss
  • ©Caro Weiss
Photo: ©Gabriela Silveria
Consumation

This is a still life. A single white strawflower sits in a kenzan flower pin which holds it in an upright vertical position. Two of the three flower heads are on fire and the stem has swirling smoke around it.

Photo: ©Gabriela Silveria
Yellow Forsythia

This is a botanical installation. Yellow flowering forsythia branches are formed into two mounded shapes which are suspended side by side, one above the other, as if the two forms were floating. A sycamore branch reaches out from the lower form and lightly touches the floor. The forms hang inside an old warehouse with whitewashed stone walls.

Photo: ©Gabriela Silveria
Laboratory Perfumes

This is a product photoshoot. Stems of green and blue sea grass are gathered and knotted amidst a collection of candles and perfume bottles. The sea grass stands at different heights and points in different directions.

Photo: ©Caro Weiss
The House - pink room

This is a botanical set design. A model stands in an unfurnished room in an abandoned house. The room has aged pink walls. From two of the corners of the room, from the ceiling above the model and from the floor, willow branches reach out towards the model. The willow stems are bendy and finger-like and are shaped in a cage formation.

Photo: ©Caro Weiss
The House - blue room

This is a botanical set design with daucus carota, phlox dumondii, achillea, digitalis ferruginea, ferns, moss and hosta flowers. Flowers appear to grow from the ground surrounding a model in an unfurnished room in an old, abandoned house. The flowers and foliage grow in a wild manner and contain seed heads, ferns and mosses, with only a few flowers adding a warm colour.

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