Helen Ahpornsiri in The New York Times Magazine
HELEN AHPORNSIRI has been featured in The New York Times Magazine. I am thrilled to share with you that my artist Helen Ahpornsiri spoke to Malia Wollan about how to press flowers for a column in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.
“Anything that’s quite flat will press nicely, like buttercups and ferns,” says Helen Ahpornsiri, 32, an artist who builds intricate collages using glue, a surgical scalpel and the pressed plants she collects near her home in East Sussex, England. Small, light flowers like forget-me-nots almost always look lovely squished, but don’t overlook the less obvious flora. One of Ahpornsiri’s favorite flowers to press is Queen Anne’s lace, bursts of small white blooms that look like fireworks when pancaked....." Extract from the article.
