Ikebana and us

Our Director Reji Mrs Malathi Pandurang was invited by the Adyar Library and Research Centre, to give an ikebana demonstration. The presentation was thus named “Aesthetic Practice in the Art of Ikebana” and took place on the 9th of March.  Our Director had invited the non-Senseis in our group to assist her and also participate in the program. After introducing the origin of Ikebana and the classical Schools, she spoke on how it moved from the Buddhist temples to society and gave birth to the Modern Schools namely, Ohara and Sogetsu by about 1926 and 1927 respectively. Sogetsu maintains the 3 main Lines Shin, Soe, Hikae and by their heights and angles form a triangular structure for the students to begin mastering the technique as well as being close to natural processes. Further Art principles like Shape, Form, Colour , Rhythm, Texture,  was incorporated to define it as an Art. The Concept of ‘The Beautiful’ is a Universal one, and to create it we resort to aesthetics , which accepts a

At Our meeting in February a review of our annual exhibition was conducted by our Director Mrs Malathi Pandurang. Twelve of our members attended this meeting held at ABK on the 24th of February. Our chairperson Mrs Malathi Pandurang began the review by thanking the tremendous efforts of our members   Miss Satya, Mrs Pushkala and Mrs Chitra Thiagarajan to make the exhibition a complete success. Mrs Malathi Pandurang also acknowledged the  gracious support of Mr Gopinath, Mrs Latha and Miss Satya of   Cholamandal Artists’ village. The exemplary team spirit of the members of our Branch was lauded by Mrs Pandurang. Our senior sensei Mrs Padma Swaminathan decided to give away two of her unique ikebana containers to our members. Hence Sensei Mrs Ambika Chandrashekar conducted this informal auction and the proceeds were donated to the Branch by  Mrs Padma Swaminathan Padma Ma’m also graciously gave away her collection of ikebana books and miniature porcelain shells, to be used as accessories