Ikebana and us

 Saturday 16th November 2024 It is a rainy week in Chennai as the North-East monsoon brings us rain spells and storms. 10 of us assembled at the ABK hall for our November demonstration and workshop.  Sensei Chitra T chose the theme of unconventional matierla for her demonstration. She was well prepared and organised, and quickly began after a ew customary announcements.. Chitra T's first composition - Beautiful black glass vase with curves, was complemented with the white wire which was stapled.  Canna lily leaves created bold movement and mass, and was complimented with the wine coloured Chrysanthemums. She explained the structure of her second composition.  A self made iron stand around which she twined a plastic hose pipe.  A small plastic bottle with water was wired behind, to hold fresh material.  Her first variation with this unconventional material used gladioli, carnations, fox tail and dieffenbachia leaves. After the demonstration, after conversati...

We had a delightful time with three of our members demonstrating their style.                                                                                      Sensei Dally Vergis                                                              Sensei Dally Vergis did a beautiful arrangement using Aspidistra, Pandanus, Lily, and Bixa orellana in soft stone containers.  Sensei Prerana Mehta never fails to impress us with her unconventional materials. Her first arrangement using hand crafted paper tubes, lily and Gypsophilia in a ceramic blue container was very innovative.             ...

25th September 2021 It was once again time for our online monthly meeting via Google Meet.  This month, our recently qualified sensei Chitra Thiagarajan was going to give a demonstration on the challenging theme of exhibiting surface, line and mass in a single composition.  Members were excited and challenged by the theme, and we all looked forward to Chitra's interpretation. After ensuring that the camera positions and the video and audio were fine, we were ready to go.  About 15 members had logged in, and Chitra was her smiling confident self.  She began her demonstration with a moribana on a small ceramic plate, with a banana leaf, propped up from behind, to show surface. Explaining what she was doing, and working quickly and deftly, she added the lines of the umbrella plant, to bring movement and drama to the composition and finished off with Alamanda flowers as a mass.   By Sensei Chitra T - Banana leaf, umbrella plant and allamanda flowers -  in a cer...