Working with nature

Thousands of Bees Work With Artist on Incredible Embroidery Art: Over the past decade, Toronto-based artist Ava Roth has been making art with some unusual helpers—bees. While it sounds unconventional, this inter-species collaboration explores the relationship between humans and nature. Wooden frames with collages and embroidery are embellished with an abundance of golden honeycomb, highlighting the beauty that can come from this partnership

Velvet Meadows beautiful dandelion.

Olga Prinku work combines dried and preserved flowers and other plant-based natural materials with tulle fabric, to create motifs drawn from nature and traditional folkloric embroidery patterns or tapestries. 

She uses a variety of methods to attach the flowers, principally trapping the delicate stems in the fabric’s net structure. Sometimes these stems are as fine as a third of a millimeter wide. It’s an intricate process that demands a high level of dedication and focus, and an intimate feel for the breaking point of the fragile raw materials in my fingertips. She has a sense of being led by the plants themselves as I often freestyle to distribute the design within the space.