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The Principles and Elements of great design in
floral art and flower arranging is finally now available in an exclusive CD, " Principles and Elements in Floral Design" with Ngaire Clarke. Follow a lesson on each element and principle with a floral project to try, read more here. The feature illustrated here is space
 Space  "The overall area which encompasses a design. A key element, space defines and enhances form and acts as a foil for solids. Consideration should be given to space within and around a design. It may be boundless or enclosed." From Flair, The FASNZ book
The space around a design takes in the three dimensions.The space within a design also has to be considered. | Space can be enclosed as when you use great twirls of vines, or boundless as a twig may lead your eye off out of the design.Therefore there are spaces in the design, and space around the design.
Space is defined by the solid plant material we put into a design and therefore a space can be totally surrounded by solid material. A line of vine, leaf etc can also create a space without totally enclosing it. Spaces have weight visually.The more
closed a space is, the more weight it has, and this must be considered when
contemplating balance of a design.. |  | Creating space ~ a beginners guide! If you are able to, watch top designers at work on a design. You will see the variety of plant material they use to create space. Great swirls of tortured willow, a bundle of reeds curving through a large design, rolls of aspidistra, astelia , flax or other long leaves all can be manipulated to create space.
A anthurium leaf or two above a design acting like a little umbrella can add spaceto the top of a design Because space is three dimensional, use your plant material to create a 3D design, so your design's back is not flat and you have a 360 degree effect | Margaret Holmes has used space in this design,featured here as a lesson
for you to try.
The astelia leaves have been curled into a series of circles to enclose spaces.
This has given visual weight to the end
of the design, to balance the length of the leaves she extended in the other direction.
Without these enclosed spaces, the design would look lop-sided.
in this design, |  June W created space with a lichen covered twig and two "umbrellas" of anthirrium leaves.
The design, without these, would have been flat and 2 dimensional.This workshop is available here |  .In the same workshop the designer featured below used barbed wire to create space! | |
