purple poppies, floral wallpaper and a mushroom flatlay

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Feb 15, 2023

A book titled 'Flower Philosophy' on a paper surface with leaf shadows cast over it. The book cover has a vase with an arrangement of autumn flowers.

The chill of ice cold waters blanketed in a thick white fog; skin red, heart racing. Thick clumps of dock, grasses, seed heads and trying to match a floral subject with peeling wallpaper. Fried egg of daffodil, fluffs of green, yellow and white.
A pause for a snail, a ladybird, a cloud.
Borrowing corners from friends and setting makeshift tables in the middle of nowhere surrounded by heather and golden light - WhatsApp messages the next day reporting our midge bites. Dazzling orange, ruby and rust, lighting candles, and being entranced by steaming elderberry. Two years of shooting, countless micro seasons (and mugs of tea/coffee/orange wine), scattered petals, silent focus and putting the world to rights.
Very. Precarious. Balancing. Of. Stems.

A few images from Flower Philosophy* by Anna Potter, published by White Lion and photographed by me. The book is a follow-up to Anna’s first book released in 2019, The Flower Fix.

An arrangement of autumn flowers in a tall vase, two lit candles to the right of the flowers and placed on top of a small table. The background is a roll of worn tattered canvas.

A flatly of lots of different types of mushrooms.

In the wintery woods, a giant hoop of honesty and winter foliage. A woman with hair that looks like the bracken stands about to step into the hoop, looking back at the viewer. She is wearing a dark cloak and boots.

A woman wears a flower crown and is up to her neck in water. The pond is misty and there are faint trees in the background.

A view of a heathery landscape on a summer's evening; the sun is setting through silver birch trees.

A close-up detail of a pile of grey and purple poppies.

A hanging cloud of dried grasses and other foliage with the sun shining on it. The backdrop is a bare textured plaster wall.

A large room with a window to the left, a gauze curtain shows sunshine. A large built in wooden wardrobe is overflowing with blossom and flowers. A woman wearing a knee length dress and boots is arranging the flowers.

An arrangement of summer flowers of all shapes and sizes in a jug. The jug is ceramic and sat in a matching bowl on a wooden table against a wall. There is a framed embroidery sample above the flowers and a hand coming into frame on the right to adjust the flowers.

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