In her early days, Marianne Ravenna would take long walks in the woods of Vermont and pick wildflowers to make spirited bouquets for her parents’ dining table. This careful examination of the natural flora around her kindled a deep appreciation and love of flowers, plants, and everything that grows. Marianne studied Horticulture in college and has spent her life creating large landscape designs for residential and commercial clients. Her knowledge of various plant life extends from the Northeastern United states to the Tropics of Sanibel Island, Florida. Over the years Marianne’s vision has expanded to include botanicals as art forms. She gathers and cultivates flowers and plants, meticulously preserving and arranging them into a new kind of two dimensional bouquet. Marianne studied the technique of pressing flowers that preserves their rich colors even after they are past the colorful stage of natural beauty. In her creative botanical collages, she carefully chooses and arranges these flowers and leaves to preserve their beauty indefinitely. In both of Marianne’s professional and creative processes, there is work with textural and dimensional components that stimulates her passion for natural beauty. As a testament to how much Marianne loves her work with botanicals, she says, “When I see a beautiful or unique flower or plant, I get an almost physical reaction.” Marianne’s new body of work includes pressed wedding bouquets. Her interest in preserving the beauty and emotion of meaningful personal flower bouquets is addictive. She loves to preserves the moment and memories of these bouquets for the future in fanciful contemporary designs.