“I don’t know how you describe romance actually but some objects have it, they just have something that is more than themselves. If you’re interested in them you can communicate it and they can communicate it too, and it’s just magic, it’s just how life is.”
Robert Kime
We live in a fast paced, gilded and sometimes hollow aspirational world where occasionally you just need to have the courage to take time to listen to your creative voice and forge your own version of perfection.
Lucy takes us on an inspirational journey through a seasonal year in her garden, her floral artist’s studio at home in the mountains of North Wales and some of the places of her inspiration and greatest muses.
Her gentle, wry look at a busy, noisy and demanding world weaves as a delicious narrative through the pages of exquisite floral images, landscapes and still life, encouraging the reader to look for wonder and beauty in the familiar, elevate the ordinary into the extraordinary, give yourself permission to find your unique voice and allow yourself time to make your creative life as good as it can be … right now.
Published by Ryland, Peters and Small. October 2021.
Praise for Lucy Hunter's first book
Garden's Illustrated
‘Seasonality and self-knowledge are atthe eart of tis beautiful, inspirational and refrshinly fun book by the floral polymath Lucy Hunter’.
Floret
‘Overflowing with gorgeous photography, wonderful step-by- step tutorials, and beautiful essys.’
From the romance of the countryside, the ever-changing light of the coast, drama of the mountains and the interwoven lives we have cultivated with nature in our urban places.
This is about those hidden stories in the landscape, how we connect to them daily. It is how we can all take inspiration from nature and the landscape and how to scale it down to fill our homes and lives.
I encourage you to pause and look, to observe the fine detail and fill our minds and soul with the greatest possibilities for filling our world with floral arrangements, creativity and beauty. There are projects for you to try at home, lavish photography and gentle musings throughout.
This is a floral love story for you.
Published by Ryland, Peters and Small. September 2023.
Reviews
‘The title captures what I adore about Lucy Hunter's second book. Each composition tells the story of the place and time in which its comprising elements grew. Each is a love letter to the natural process, the struggle for life, and the refined beauty those challenges create. Beyond the step by step of arranging flowers, Lucy gives access to her conceptual process. The book just as much tracks a very beautiful internal landscape. Then to understand not only did she design all of the pieces with blooms she grew herself, but also styled and shot took my admiration to awe.’
Max Gill of Max Gill Design, San Francisco