Floral Portaits by Joanna Ham project emotions and personalities.

It is fascinating to see how flowers continue to sow the seeds of inspiration for designers and artists and how they can reinvent the well-loved patterns we see in gardens and the wild and represent them in fresh approaches, giving them personalities.

Joanna Ham's Floral Portraits exhibited at Decorex in London, October 6 - 9 2019.  Her chosen subjects are placed on a pedestal and often bathed in light, separating them from reality and creating a sense of fantasy.

Above left, Coy and right, Surprise. 

Photos taken at Decorex by Lucia Carpio.

One British artist who uses photogram and mixed media to create her series of Floral Portraits is Joanna Ham, who exhibited her unique artwork at the Decorex International  trade fair for interior design professionals in London's Olympia this October.
  
Admirers are captivated by the way she captures and expresses the power of human sentiment through flowers in these portraits which are intricate botanical studies that Joanna manipulates and redraw to depict more than just their form.

Each floral portrait created by Joanna Ham projects emotions and personalities.   

Joanna explains that she draws inspiration from various sources, and has long been fascinated by the psychology behind the giving of flowers, and the act itself has become symbolic and a culturally-accepted expression of shared, frequently unspoken feeling, and this became a starting point for many of the prints in the floral collection which is a visual nod to the Dutch still-life movement.  

Her process in creating these portraits is unique, mixing traditional and contemporary techniques, always through a monochrome lens.  She photographs hundreds of flowers to find one that unlocks an idea, and then sets to work redrawing, editing and digitally manipulating to create an entirely new form.  Once complete, the image is transferred to silk screen and the final print is pulled by hand.

Each chosen subject is placed on a pedestal and often bathed in light, separating them from reality and creating a sense of fantasy.  Each floral portrait indeed projects emotions and personalities even.  

Joanna gained a BA in Fine Art with a specialism in anatomy at The Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University.  She has exhibited with Liberty London, The Other Art Fair, London Design Festival, Billy Name, The Serena Morton Gallery and Modern Art Oxford.

In 2016, her work was selected for the National Original Print Exhibition by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.  And in 2018 she was shortlisted for the Global Rise Art Print Prize and awarded the Aviva Women of Future Arts and Culture Prize.

Joanna has created bespoke artwork for Nike, Hilton, The Berkeley, We Work, Print Club London and Eurostar's 20th Anniversary,  She is also the founder and illustrator of design brand HAM.