Feeling of a soft touch to the beauty and magnitude of nature, its sensitivity, fragility has long been breathed by skilled craftsmen, poets, musicians. But, apparently, from all the creative areas most closely connected with the nature was the art of floristics. Dried pressed plants form a colorful natural palette for the implementation of any ideas of the artist and, at the same time, preserve the magnificent enchanting aura of nature. Make sure this is possible at the exhibition of painters of the National studio of decorative and applied art “Floristics” at the Kiev City Palace of Veterans, which opened in the Art Gallery of the Central Committee of the Igor Sikorsky KPI.

For more than four decades, folk studios have been constantly improving their craftsmanship and popularizing the art of floristics at numerous exhibitions and workshops. They have received widespread acceptance by the visitors of the exhibition and the media. In the studio there are people of all ages and professions, united by love of nature, the native land, a civic position in the history of the country. For a significant contribution to the development of amateur art, high artistic level, performing skill in 2005, the collective was awarded the honorary title “People's Amateur Team”. The studio regularly replenishes its collection with new works, which is a tribute to the cultural life of the capital.

At the exhibition you can get acquainted with such a different kind of floristry, known as oshibana. The word “oshibana” came to us from Japan. “Osho” - frozen, “bana” - a flower. This type of decorative art is also called extruded floristry.

Interestingly, in their work florists use the most diverse natural materials: leaves, branches, flower petals, straw, seeds, poplar fluff, fish bones, banana peel, bark of trees and many more, given by nature.

 At the exhibition entitled “Lovers in Flora” you can see one hundred and eighteen works of six to twenty authors: Vira Avdeyeva, Valentyna Protsko, Irina Molchanova, Kateryna Ditkivska, Galina Donchenko, Olena Zhuravska, Olga Krukivska, Lyudmyla Porunova, Kateryna Rybina, Anna Filina, Valentina Chernyshova, Lyubov Khandoshko, Iryna Balashova, Nina Serova, Nina Chykalina, Lyudmila Vereta.

I hope that the visitors of the exhibition will not only get great pleasure from the review of the works, but will also make many discoveries in the art of floristics for themselves.