Flower Preservation - Created with joy Art

Flowers are organic, botanical material. Great care is taken in pressing and preserving flowers, however, unless flowers are colour-enhanced they can change over time. Each flower will fade differently over different lengths of time.  As their colours naturally change, this should be embraced and seen as beauty. Art is designed in such a way that whether or not flowers change there still will

Your pressed wedding bouquet flowers can be affected by the environmental conditions in which it is placed. We do what we can to ensure your framed flowers will last as long as possible, but like all fabrics and furnishings, your flowers may gradually fade over time. Avoid hanging in direct sunlight or humid/damp areas. Handle with utmost care as small fragments of florals may fall over the years.

Yes, contact me via the custom form and let me know what you are thinking.

Metal Frame - flowers are encased between glass and framed using the tiffany stained glass method. Frames can be coloured black, copper or silver. 

Timber Frame - Once artwork is designed it will be taken to a local framer to frame in high quality timber. Teak, natural and limewash are options at this time.

Shadowbox frames - if you want your flowers to remain 3D looking they can be preserved and framed in a shadowbox. This is available in Oak or limewash

The short answer - no! Each flower has a way of changing through the drying process differently. For example burgundy tulips go purple... white flowers will sometimes go more of an antique white, purple lizianthus will go a blue/green colour. It's actually quite amazing! 

Do you colour enhance or colour corrrect?

Every effort is made to preserve the colours in your flowers. However, over time some flowers will fade - some quicker than others. CWJA offers the opportunity to enhance flowers to keep them as they came out of the press. Subtle enhancement allows your preserved piece of art to hold colours for longer. 

Colour enhancing involves manually enhancing the colour of your preserved flower art so that colours hold longer. This process is extremely time-consuming and literally adds hours to the time it takes to complete a piece... but ultimately adds life to your art, keeping it looking brighter for longer. If this option is selected, botanicals that can be colour-enhancing will be. Some botanicals can't be enhanced as they look unnatural or due to their nature can't be enhanced.  Please note that the botanicals will still age and change over time.

Age naturally - allow your pressed flower art to "age with you". Flowers will be left as they come out of the press and they will change over time - at varying times.

White roses/or light pink roses turn to an ivory colour very quickly in the ageing process.