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Thistle by Nature
  • About
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  • Teaching
  • Nuptials
    • Nuptials
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Thistle by Nature’s self-led artistic practice draws on themes of seasonality, plant-lore, traditional uses of plants & ritualising points in the year with flower arranging to advocate connection to nature & its circularity. Thistle by Nature creates work for exhibitions, artworks, publications & collaborates with artists exploring similar themes. 

We work with brands, businesses & creatives alike to rear season led concepts & styling for shoots, sets, editorials, spaces, workshops & events. We work with businesses that we feel our ethos & values align with to produce work with soul & authenticity.

We’re inspired by ceremonies & celebrations led by the season with an emphasis on paying ode to Mother nature & sustainability. Specialising in earthy, loose & organically designed arrangements twined with unusual, nuanced colour palettes & bountiful texture, we create floral alchemy for unique & interesting nuptials.

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🪨Cotinus & Eucalyptus🪨 

An explorative project with textile duo @centre.half on waste cut flower, experimental natural dye & visual concept building.

Photos by the image wizard @alohabshaw 

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@thistlebynature X @weven_shop 

Our corn dolly & harvest arrangement workshop last Sunday at @ffern.co felt like a modern and explorative way of marrying the ancient craft of wheat weaving with floral design.

The group made a variety of braids
@thistlebynature X @centre.half 

📯Dahlia & Coreopsis📯

With flowers saved & dried from last years wedding season, a series of dye experiments and a day at CSA gold room with the brilliant @alohabshaw we created a still life & portrait
Honored and delighted to have exhibited at @strawbhillhouse flower festival for its 6th year along side SO MANY other talented & inspiring designers to champion British grown flowers.
The house is practically bursting at the seams with beauty whe
Not sure who’s working harder here, me or that magic light💫 

@strawbhillhouse 
@leigh.chappell.flowers
@jannelford

📸: @emlynbainbridge
Honored and delighted to have exhibited at @strawbhillhouse flower festival for its 6th year along side SO MANY other talented & inspiring designers to champion British grown flowers.
The house is practically bursting at the seams with beauty whe
@thistlebynature X @centre.half 

A project on waste cut flower, experimental natural dye & visual concept building.

BTS from the dyeing process & photoshoot where concepts were created centered around
Cornflower & Chrysanthemum 
Continu
APPLECORE:
An exploration into conceptual botanical design centered around the apple.

After lunch you will work collectively with your fellow creatives to build a large-scale free standing sculpture based on ideas, stories & symbolism of apple w
Applecore, 22nd September.

An exploration into conceptual botanical design centered around the apple.

The day will be split into 2 halves of the same apple, during the morning you will create organic sculptural forms using apples & branches and
A P P L E C O R E
An exploration into conceptual botanical design centered around the apple.

A harvest inspired 1 day workshop exploring the form, life cycle & symbolism of apples through a sculptural manifestation of the plant at all stages.

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Keep your apples peeled for an announcement about a one day botanical design exploration this autumn, on the beautiful grounds of @hawkwood_cft 

Coming very soon🍏

📸: @emlynbainbridge
A favorite to date.

Lips + fritts from the allotment with the most beautiful rannuncs I’ve ever set eyes on.

Black flowers forever🖤
Stoked to have created this sonic set for the launch of @orburycommon’s album ‘Sylvan Chute’

Orbury common is an imagined land that exists within the musical imagination of Emlyn & Josh, an opalescent, dream-like otherworld of

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