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- By Times’ Junior Journalist Alina Jiang
The Howick Floral Art Club is an amazing art club that uses plant materials to make the most beautiful art pieces to catch your eye and make your jaw drop.
Ever since it began in 1974, this art club has been creating gorgeous pieces of floral art and celebrated its 50th anniversary last year in November with a delicious lunch.
The Howick Floral Art Club began in November, 1974, where members who were interested in floral art held an inaugural meeting, making a big mark in the history of this club.
A year later, in 1975, this floral art club officially commenced and was called the Howick Horticultural and Beautifying Floral Art Circle, which in 1976 would later be shortened to the Howick Floral Circle, once they joined the FASNZ (Floral Art Society of New Zealand) and become affiliated to the Auckland area.
The name was later changed again at the 2014 AGM (annual general meeting) becoming the current name: Howick Floral Art Club, which highlights the fact that many modern floral designs involve more structural art techniques and shows how this wouldn’t distract from the essential basics of floral technical knowledge and skills.
I interviewed the current president of the Howick Floral Art Club, whose name is Sue Armstrong.
She told me how she really enjoyed gardening, joined many clubs in different places in the past, and how she moved from the UK to Whangarei then to Auckland, working in a Floral Art Clubs in all of those regions.
“I enjoy using what I have, to make floral art designs and I like creativity”, one of her responses was.
Sue also showed me some of her designs, like the women in red, which was on display at the Eden Garden.
It is a stunning floral art piece made of red painted veneer with carnations of flowers.
I didn’t get to see it in person but I can still think about how nice it would have been to be there to see it!
The Howick Floral Art Club is the home of creativity and a place where people who have similar taste or opinions come together.
They meet at the Nixon Park Bowling Club on Selwyn Road in Howick every fourth Monday of the month at 1pm and will welcome new members with a smile.
This floral club opened in February this year to all people, so why don’t you give it a go?
For more details, contact Sue, the president of the Howick Floral Art Club, on 021 061 7495.
- Alina Jiang is in year 7 at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School
