Someone loves bouquets of fresh flowers, someone enjoys the sight of bouquets of dried flowers.
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Shannon Clegg creates vases for people in the second category.
A London-based designer creates beautiful sculptures from dried, pressed flowers, shaped into vases.
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She previously taught pottery and mold making at colleges and universities and now runs art studios in east London.
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She was directly inspired by nature to create this kind of sculptures.
The artist uses freshly cut flowers that she dries, shapes and preserves using a technique she has developed.
It uses a slow shaping process, which means it takes 6 weeks to form a flower sculpture