AOIFA - Association of Irish Floral Artists National Competition in the Middleton Park Hotel, Co Cork

Kay was delighted to get the opportunity to visit the National Competitions for AOIFA this year in Middleton in Co Cork.  As a Commercial Florist it is such a wonderful experience to see these Artists at work using the flowers & materials we use in the school everyday but on a commercial basis.
Their designs were just amazing and the hours of work that must have went into each piece was evident in the attention to detail in each of the floral designs.

Over the course of the day Kay got chatting with lots of the designers and coincidentally some of them had actually started out as students at  Kay's School of Floristry many many years ago.

Mary O Brien won Floral Artist of the year with this stunning creation and fantastic use of midelino sticks 

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Beatrice Hartog won first in the Craft Class with this exceptional piece of craft.

For more information on AOIFA visit their website here 

The 11th World Flower Show will be held in Ireland this year for the very first time in the RDS in Dublin.  This Event will be attended by Floral Artists and Flower arrangers from all over the world and is expected to be a phenomenal success.  For more information on this event and to buy tickets pop over to The World Association of Flower Arrangers Page. (WAFA)