I have just completed this sign for my friend Dawn's new flower business - avocado & pink! Not content with Custard Pudding, the tearoom and art gallery, that she set up nearly a year ago next door to the One Craft Gallery, she has now opened this new business! It is being operated from a downstair area of her tearooms - see below. The flowers are mostly grown in her own garden or are locally sourced.
As with food, there is a growing demand for local, seasonal flowers with a reduced carbon footprint. Dawn provides fresh-as-a daisy, hand tied arrangements, in beautiful colour combinations and scents, with more than a hint of hedgerow about them! She also supplies bouquets and flowers for weddings and special events... Avocado & pink are a delightful addition to Shepton's High Street.
I have just finished this mixed media picture on a wood panel (30cms x 30 cms). It is titled 'Hydrangeas by Moonlight' and was inspired by the hydrangeas in my garden. They have been so beautiful this year, that I have been cutting them for my friend Dawn's Advocado & Pink flower shop. She gave me a tip - when you cut them, plunge the stems immediately in boiling water for 30 seconds, before putting them into cold water. Apparently this prevents them going floppy and they last longer. She has been using them in some of her stunning flower arrangements.
