🌼Choose your favorite instructor from the Bucharest Ikebana Festival!
The next guest, MARIANNE DUFRAISSE, comes from France, but her roots are Romanian. A beautiful and pure soul, a person of surprising authenticity, with a clear and confident gaze, with an overflowing and powerful creative energy that animates her to always discover new means of expression.
🌼Marianne has two workshops during the Bucharest Ikebana Festival (October 13-19, 2025, USAMVB, Bd. Mărăști 59):
- October 18 / 11:00 - White or colored paper, creativity with unconventional materials)
- October 19 / 12:00 - Kakebana in a bamboo, creativity with flowers and seasonal plants
For information and registration, please write to us at:
🌼A short presentation:
Franco-Romanian Ikebana artist, 3rd degree teacher- Sankyu Shihan
Flower name: Kishin
Member of:
- Sogetsu Teachers Association,
- Ikebana International Bucharest Chapter 269
Instagram: fleurgreen19
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🌼Exhibitions:
2025 - Arboretum Espartignac France - Bamboo and Ikebana
2025 - Rendez-vous au jardin - at the Arboretum of Espartignac France
2024 - Ikebana International Festival Bucharest
2015 France, Medoc Gironde - Japanese art in all its forms
2014 France, Brive, exhibition for the Sacred Days of Japan
Workshops:
- Active member of the Ikebana Club chaired by Ekaterina Seehaus
- Private/public demonstrations in France to introduce the art of Ikebana to the general public
🌼Her own words:
"My journey on the Path of Flowers began 10 years ago. After studying the 5 textbooks, I obtained my first teacher's diploma in 2023, and my second in 2025.
What I like about Ikebana is that we learn constantly, and throughout life, at any level, every ikebanist has a teacher, someone who has more experience to share, a special bond being created and an artistic relationship that is as rare as it is impressive.
I practiced Western floral art as a hobby for 20 years, which gave me the opportunity to meet great names among international floral creators. But I felt that I was missing something deeper, a state close to meditation, a state of fulfillment and pure happiness, that's how I feel when I practice Ikebana.
The covid period gave me the opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and imagine other ways of working and processing what I had at hand, this being one of the advantages of our Sogetsu school – anyone can create, with any material, anywhere. It is an extraordinary motto in opening new horizons, a motto full of positive energy and so profound.
My favorite materials are bamboo, unconventional materials, but also everything that is more “expressive” or different in nature, I like to give them an artistic life. We find these materials very often in my creations presented in exhibitions in France where I live or in Romania where I am one of the members of Ikebana International Bucharest Chapter 269.”
