4 evenings Max 8 students All levels

Ikebana and botanical sculpture:
four evenings of line
and empty space

A Sogetsu-based course on the quiet end of floristry: line, angle, negative space and the vessel as half the composition. AU$380, ceramic vessels provided.

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Minimal ikebana arrangement of magnolia branch and single anthurium

PriceAU$380
Format4 × Thu 18:00–21:00
Studio9/131 Gouger St

Student adjusting the angle of a branch in a low ceramic vessel

Evening two. The forty-five-degree angle took forty-five minutes.

The workshop

The craft of leaving things out

Ikebana is floristry with the volume turned down. Three lines, a kenzan, one vessel, and the discipline to stop adding. It retrains your eye faster than any other module we run, and commercial florists take it to unlearn clutter.

June Park teaches the Sogetsu school's shin-soe-hikae line system on Australian material: magnolia, gum, banksia, anthurium. Every evening ends with a crit over tea, which is kinder than it sounds.

Who it suits

Working floristsdeclutter instinct
Minimalistsfinally, a course
Photographerscomposition training

What we cover

Four evenings, four disciplines

Each evening pairs a technique with a vessel study.

Evenings 1–2

Line: shin, soe, hikae

The three-line skeleton of every Sogetsu arrangement. Heaven, earth, human, and why the space between the stems carries the piece.

Vessels

Low suiban, narrow-neck amphora, brutalist cylinder. The vessel is half the work.

Scent & texture

Pairing aromatic stems with tactile ones: eucalyptus, protea, bare branch.

Proportion

The golden-section rule for vessel height versus stem, tested on three archetypes.

Kenzan mastery

Pin-holder work: angles, concealment, and not bleeding on the anthurium.

From the bench

Quiet pieces, loud reactions

Shot in our cyclorama corner

Single anthurium with curved branch in suiban vessel — Suiban study · anthurium

Tall magnolia branch piece in brutalist cylinder — Vertical · magnolia

Two-stem banksia composition in handmade bowl — Banksia pair · earthenware

Gum leaf mass arrangement in low dish — Gum study · massed line

The practical bits

Everything is included

Stock, tools, wrap, tea and the good playlist. You bring closed shoes and a phone for portfolio shots.

FormatThursdays 18:00–21:00
Vesselsstudio ceramics provided
TeacherJune Park, Sogetsu
Deposit to bookAU$80

In the price

Kenzan to keep (yours, it is sharp)
All branches, stems and vessels
30% student discount at our partner potters
Line-system reference cards
Crit photos of every piece

Your seat

AU$3804 × Thu 18:00–21:00 · 14-day refund window

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Before you book

Three things people ask

Anything else, the curator answers on the contacts page within 15 minutes in studio hours.

No. Ikebana assumes nothing except patience. Beginners often do better than experienced florists, who have to unlearn the urge to fill the vessel.

The studio ceramics stay with us, but the partner pottery gives students 30% off, and most people leave evening four wanting a suiban of their own anyway.

More than anything else we teach. Restraint is what separates a AU$95 bouquet from a AU$45 one, and this course is four evenings of practising exactly that.

Autumn evenings from 9 April

The slowest, quietest course we run. Eight seats, tea included.

4 evenings Adelaide studio

Ikebana and botanical sculpture: four evenings of line and empty space