This year, Marblehead Arts Association annual national exhibit called ‘Variations 2025’ also featured an Arts In Bloom event patterned after the popular Museum of Fine Arts event. Floral designers from local garden clubs, floral shop owners, and others from the floral design community were paired with a piece of art from the Variations collection to interpret in a floral masterpiece.
Driftwood Garden Club members Ginny von Rueden and Laurie Boggis have teamed-up in the past to design in the Boston MFA event. This year at the Marblehead Arts historic King Hooper Mansion, they each interpreted the same painting: a striking acrylic rendition of Seawall Boulevard in the Gulf Coast City of Galveston, Texas by artist Don Hammontree, complete with a vintage 1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am car in the foreground.
Laurie is a confirmed ‘Less is More’ kind of designer, while Ginny has a ‘More is More’ approach to her arrangements. The final results were both beautiful and yet entirely different from each other. The ‘Dueling Designers’ entertained the audience with tales of past adventures and challenges from their years of working together.
Also kudos to DGC member Jo Ann Augeri Silva who represented the Driftwood Garden Club well with her stunning rendition of the Spanish Stallion piece by equine photographer Susan Correia.
Ticket-holders to the Sunday afternoon event entered their names in a raffle, and the winners received a donated floral arrangement to take home and enjoy. Every stunning floral design captured the essence of the assigned art.
Congratulations and thanks to all the talented floral designers who interpreted the art with flowers.
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