Back by popular demand!
Art from the Garden: Creating with Pressed Flowers. Facilitated by Ellie Roden
Pressed flower artist, Ellie Roden, will be offering a 2-hour hands-on workshop on creating art with pressed flowers. Ellie will introduce ways to turn flowers, leaves, and other plant materials into beautiful art. Various techniques for successful flower pressing and necessary tools and materials will be shared, including microwave flower pressing for perfect and immediate results. Ideas and tips for creating with pressed flowers will be presented with examples shown. Participants will then have the opportunity to create bookmarks, cards, ornament balls, and/or wall art with a wide variety of pressed flowers, leaves, and stems. All materials will be provided.
Meet Ellie Roden:
Ellie is a longtime resident of southern Vermont, retired primary school teacher, and avid flower gardener. She has been creating art with pressed flowers for many years. She has always been intrigued with the beauty of flowers and presses them as a way to preserve their beauty. Ellie is a self-taught pressed flower artist who has honed her craft over years of trial and error and careful observation. Her award-winning pressed flower art has been exhibited at shows and in galleries throughout New England and featured in two national publications.
$40.00 Per Person.
Space is Limited. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
https://www.thesparklebarn.com/.../art-from-the.../16172...
Monday Jul 14, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
The Sparkle Barn
1509 US 7 S
Wallingford, VT 05773
Printed courtesy of www.rutlandvermont.com – Contact the Chamber and Economic Development of the Rutland Region for more information.
67 Merchants Row, STE 104, Rutland, VT 05701 – (802) 773-2747 – chrispin@rutlandeconomy.com