Everlasting Flowers with Jessie Chui - Tea Rose Workshop
Begin your Mother’s Day weekend with a morning at the historic Melville White Church making paper flowers! Join artist Jessie Chui as she takes you through the steps of creating a romantic tea rose with paper. Learn to use and manipulate the unique properties of crepe paper, mould velvety petals, and construct realistic-looking leaf foliage for this iconic love flower. Material kits include a written instruction booklet, templates, and enough materials to make one rose during the 2.5 hour workshop and two more at home. Please bring a pair of sharp-tipped scissors with you to the workshop.
Details:
DATE: Saturday May 11, 2024
TIME: 10AM - 12:30PM
LOCATION: Melville White Church (15962 Mississauga Rd, Terra Cotta, ON L7C 1W9)
COST: $75 per person + $20 material fee CAD. You will be charged $69 USD.
This special workshop is part of the Festival of ARTFUL Communities, May 1-31, 2024.
About the artist-instructor:
Jessie Chui is a self-taught artist, educator, and the author of Paper Flower Art (2019, GMC Publications) and Paper Flowers (2021, GMC Publications) and co-founder of Paper Talk and the Paper Talk Podcast. After a seven-year legal career, she shifted her focus to raise her son and pursue her creativity. Her paper floral art quickly drew the attention of The Paper Place, a retail paper store in Toronto, and she began to teach workshops there. With this encouragement, she formally established her art studio in 2016, and began exhibiting her sculptures in 2019. Her work has been featured on 100 Layer Cake, Green Wedding Shoes, Lia Griffith’s Artist Interview Series, WedLuxe, Holt Renfrew’s Holiday Magazine, Breathe Magazine, and the Botanical Brouhaha podcast, to name a few. In addition to making floral and fauna sculptures and still life images, she offers paper flower workshops in private and group settings as well as online paper flower courses through her education website Crafted to Bloom. She currently teaches at Visual Arts Mississauga, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Aurora Cultural Centre, City of Richmond Hill, and The Paper Place.
