{ hello, i'm erin }

I've identified as an artist since I was a little girl. My love for flowers and jewelry grew out of a curiosity around my Connecticut upbringing: exploring hydrangea and rhubarb circling our 1700s colonial home, growing flowers with my family, celebrating the seasons with them, pressing flowers, drawing them, creating dolls' skirts from overturned hyacinth blooms, making endless flower necklaces, rings and bracelets, and reading about mother nature in transcendental books like those of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. I arrange flowers with color, shape, and the recipient's essence top of mind, collecting blooms the way I collect stories, books, and the occasional vintage painting from a seaside shop. I'm based in Vermont, and I'm available throughout New England. I love gardening, beach-ing, pilates, reading, my partner and son.

The artist:

how and why:

{ reason and process }

I have always turned to flowers as a way to make others and myself feel and cherish life. As a child I pressed flowers to make Mothers' Day cards and I was the youngest visitor to open garden days in our hometown, sketchbook in tow. I climbed the blooming apple trees in our coutryards in high school, and wore clover necklaces to beach parties on Block Island. I used to sign my name with a hydrangea bloom doodle.

When I moved home to Westport, Connecticut to help care for my mom I was encouraged to have another reason to relocate, and to find something else to pour my energy + focus into, besides my mom's health and well being. I enrolled in a six-week intensive course in flowers at the New York Botanical Gardens. During this time I learned so much about about how to love myself, how to love others, and about flowers.

Flowers continue to teach me that all beautiful living things are ethereal, but perhaps that is what makes them especially amazing to witness. They remind me that life is beautiful and should be marveled at + loved hard, every day, down to the last petal. The flowers that I bring you are a time stamp of a season in your life, an exquisite day with blooms that show where and when your celebration is taking place.

Aside from flowers I have always had an interest in developing my intuitive gifts. I bring a sense of calm, artistry, and improvisation to the flowers installations I create onsite at weddings, events, and editorial shoots. I enjoy getting to know my clients enough to spark a guiding sense of direction in my mind's eye when I make selections and design choices for their flowers guided by our conversations and more.

I source most of my blooms from local seasonal farms throughout New England. I purchase from an average of six flower farms any given week, often driving to the farms myself and sometimes hand picking each bloom. I enjoy discussing and planning your orders based on size, scale, silhouette, texture, and color palette preferences. I revel in hearing whether any blooms have special meaning to a client's family history. 

Some of my favorite flower resources include:

FLOWER AGGREGATE, BROOKLYN NY
FLOWER COLLECTIVE CONNECTICUT
THE FLORAL RESERVE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
THE FORAGE MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT
MOREY HILL FARM CRAFTSBURY, VT
AND, MY OWN GARDENS IN MORRISVILLE, VT