Join internationally renowned floral designer and artist Françoise Weeks just in time for the holiday season! Françoise will showcase six different pre-made designs, describing the mechanics and providing detailed information behind each piece.

These designs are featured in her amazing book, ‘Wonder of the Woodlands: The Art of Seeing and Creating with Nature’. Françoise has a huge following within the floral design community. Debra Prinzing will be your host for the event.

Artist Bio:

Françoise Weeks was born in Belgium and started her business in 1996. She has infused her work with a quintessential European reverence for flowers and nature. Combined with creativity and mechanical ingenuity, she has crystallized her singular style of Textural Woodlands and Botanical Haute Couture pieces, garnering a global following.

Françoise’s studio is located in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches workshops and offers online courses. Her generosity in sharing knowledge, combined with her expertise in floral materials, structure, and mechanics, as well as the business of being a florist, creates rigorous and exciting learning opportunities for her students to explore all that nature has to offer.

Her innovation and passion for teaching have taken her to numerous cities across the U.S., where she has taught in studios, at wholesalers, at garden clubs, and at Art in Bloom events and conferences, including the AIFD Symposium. Internationally, she has taught in Mexico, Canada, England, Sweden, Iceland, France, China, and Australia.

In 2019, Françoise was invited to participate in two prestigious international flower events in Belgium: Flower Time at City Hall in Brussels and Fleuramour at the medieval castle in Alden Biesen.

Her dynamic work has been featured in national and international publications such as Nacre, Fusion Flowers, Modern Wedding Flowers, Huffington Post, Flutter, and Milieu.

Françoise’s first book, The Herbal Recipe Keeper, was published by Timber Press in 2018. Her second book, The Wonder of Woodlands, will be published by Clarkson Potter in the spring of 2024.

Recording will be available for 4 weeks.

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