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With the photography project ‘In pelle’ (‘on the skin’), photographer Bart Van Leuven and floral artist Rita Gijbels enter a new but fascinating territory: the human body as a landscape in which things happen. Sometimes the body becomes an almost abstract form in which the artists intervene with floral and vegetal matter. At other times, the focus is on body parts that are taken out of their familiar context and brought into a new and surprising coherence.

Marcel Vrignaud can rightly be called a European Ikebana pioneer. After studying for three and a half years in Nagoya, Japan, Vrignaud founded his own Ikebana Floral Art Centre in Paris, where he is still one of the permanent professors. With a wide variety of nationalities in his training centre, Marcel Vrignaud’s style and vision is spread worldwide and the less popular Ohara style is revived every time. Readers will find in My Ikebana a reflection of the fantastic creations of this Ohara master, arranged with a multitude of plants, collected during the different seasons, in original combinations, unusual vases and bowls and in all known and less known Ohara bouquet styles: moribana, heika, landscape, rimpa, bunjin, morimono, freestyle, ikebana sculpture, micro ikebana,…