About
Keith Stanley is a Washington,DC freelance floral designer. He practices modern design and Japanese Sogetsu and Saga Goryu Ikebana. Currently he holds a Teacher’s Diploma 4th Grade (Yonkyu Shihan) from the Sogetsu School of Ikebana in Toyko, Japan. Keith enjoys growing his own flowers in an organic urban garden and scouring roadsides for natural, native and recyclable materials for his creative arrangements.
Keith is also a member of Ikebana International, and Sogetsu Washington, DC Chapter.
He has studied with designers Gregor Lersch, Els Hazenberg, and Phil Rulloda, and installation artist Patrick Dougherty.
He can be contacted by email at keith@keithstanley.com. You can also follow him on Twitter.
Lovely work!
I came to your blog when searching on leaf manipulation.
A wonderful site you are sharing and just beautiful work.. i stumbled upon it looking up Ikibana tulips and so many of your images popped up. I am a sugar artist and make sugar flowers and recently began arranging my sugar flowers ikibana style. I know very little about it but love it. Besides creating such great arrangements you use fantastic flowers, some of which I make and some I will be making. I have to find a bit of time to look over all your goal of 365 flowers…
Hi Keith
I am a member of Ikebana International K.L. Chpt 72 and just came across your site and found the ikebana arrangements spell binding…..the visuals are brilliantly photographed and materials are in superb condition. Your arrangements certainly give whaooo moments and transverse the normal ikebana presentations….superb is the word that eminates from my inner being…..thank you for the moments enjoyed through your soulful interpretation of ikebana…….
Hi Keith
I am a member of Ikebana International Karachi Chapter–204, I have been following your site for many years please keep up the good work. Your arrangements are exquisite–very creative and awesome i have gotten inspired by their originality.
Thank you Paulene, I am learning more about developing my creativity (and photograpy skills)each and every day. I am so glad you are enjoying the ikebana I am doing!
Thank you Anjum! This is a rewarding challenge to do each day, and I hope that I will carry it well beyond the year that I have committed to do!
Love your work Keith & have been following you since I started Sogetsu classes here in Brisbane – Australia. I have been inspired by your beautiful arrangements and please, please, please do not stop putting your pieces on here now the 365 day project is over ( but realise that you will want a break as I am sure it wasn’t easy ! ) Looking forward to your next “creation”……….
Hi Keith
WOW. Your Ikebana is stunning
I started to learn Ikebana when we were living in Japan and our daughter attended the International School. it was offered as a weekly activity to the expat mums.
We’ve moved to the UK and I’m very fortunate to find an Ikebana master close by and have started again, learning in English!
I look forward to seeing your work
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Thank you Ingrid. I’m still thinking about my next move. The structure of this project worked really well, and doing it publicly reinforced it in a positive way. There will definitely be more posting here, I just have to find a way to challenge myself and take it a bit further!
Just found your blog and your work. I am enjoying it… a lot!
Thanks.
I just saw the most beautiful arrangement ever!! You posted a picture of a black crescent moon vase with red thorns and green stems and I need to know if this is an arrangement that it is possible to buy. I am absolutely in love with it. It was posted September 8, 2011. Please let me know if this is possible. You are so very talented, your work brought a tear to my eye.
Thank you for responding to my work in such a wonderful way. Unfortunately I can’t reproduce most of the works, this one in particular has a ceramic container that costs about $85 used, but it does give me something to think about in future works. I had not thought about being able to reproduce and sell versions of my designs.