My sister just sent through some scans from last August when we were on the Tuscan coast, St Tropez and Biarritz.
All photographs by Olivia Kaplan.
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I recently changed my Instagram handle from @thesecretgardenblog to @sophia_kaplan
Still the same photographs of gardens and flowers, but I wanted it to reflect my new branding and website.
Some recent posts…
All images by Sophia Kaplan.
Hey guys, check out the invitation for FLEURT (from curator Amber Creswell Bell), a group show I’m flowering for from this coming weekend. If you’re in Sydney, please come on down and check it out!
‘FLEURT’ is the sequel show to the hugely popular ‘ART/VERT’ exhibition held at Paddington’s Saint Cloche gallery in January/February of this year (if you missed it – you can read all about ART/VERT here Broadsheet Sydney, and here The Design Files).
Where ART/VERT was a group show celebrating botanica as central theme and muse – FLEURT is strictly an ode to the humble flower!
FLEURT represents a diverse line up of nine popular artists, photographers and a ceramicist that I have personally curated – with each artist contributing a collection of pieces to this abundant and fanciful group show. We think this is the perfect antidote to the faded days of late autumn.
With a champagne launch and artist meet & greet from 10am SATURDAY 23rd MAY and running daily to SUNDAY 7th JUNE 2015, FLEURT features the work of:
Samantha Dennison
Nicola Higgins
Matilda Julian
Helen McCullagh
Pip Spiro
Alexandra Standen
Ameli Tanchitsa
Jill White
Ali Wood
Sought-after floral designer ‘Sophia Kaplan Plants & Flowers’ will beautifully adorn the gallery with large whimsical floral arrangements. Additionally “pockets full of posies” will be available to purchase, all lovingly arranged by Sophia – each with a note detailing the meaning of the flowers in that arrangement as per the magical “Secret Language of Flowers”.
For further information, imagery, price list or interstate sales – please contact:
Amber Creswell Bell
0414-747-761
amber@ambercreswell.com
(Read me: The Design Files; The Planthunter)
The new Marc Jacobs Daisy campaign directed by Sofia Coppola is a dreamy romp through the fields, with lighter shades of Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Virgin Suicides. It’s been a beautiful campaign over the years.
Mervyn O’Gorman, a famous British engineer, was also one of the pioneers of colour photography. These images, taken in 1913, show one of his daughters Christina on a beach in Dorset and mingling with the plants in a beautiful garden.
All images via Colossal.
The amazingly creative, plant-obsessed Angie of Ode Ceramics and I did a story last month for The Planthunter about the different ways plant and flower people source, care for and arrange plants vs flowers. It was so much fun visiting The Succulent Garden and the flower market together and then shooting it all back at her home studio. Be sure to check it out the article in full here.
I did flowers for a shoot late last year with Damien and Anastasia (same team as the Daughters of Simone shoot) which was recently published in White Magazine. Check out some of the pics below, or the article here.
Photographer Damien Milan
Stylist Anastasia Gladushchenko
Flowers by Sophia Kaplan (me!)
Make up & Hair Renee Sayed
Model Indigo Scarlet Sparke @indigolunascarlet
Dresses Well Suited Bride
Bangles + earrings Dinosaur Designs
Granule cuff + rings Marina Antoniou
Stacking rings Cinnamon Lee
Hinoki rings Dat Van
Necklaces Anna Varendorff at Milk & Thistle
The Secret Garden 