TROPICAL ADVENTURE | Julia Rose

FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND – CAIRNS REGION WORKSHOP

SATURDAY 15th JULY + SUNDAY 16th JULY 2023

FNQ Blooms is a 52-acre Tropical Flower Farm. The property is nestled at the foothills of Mt Bartle Frere
Rainforest with waterfalls and gorgeous creeks, about one hour drive south of the Cairns Airport. With an
extensive variety of Tropical Heliconia and Ginger flowers, this is the perfect environment to get creative.

This location is approximately 30 minutes south of Cairns.

A Tropical experience like no other, walking through rows of exotic tropical flowers and rainforest,
collecting to build your very own floral masterpiece with large crab claws, psittacoums and green
foliage with a choice of colours to choose from, from pinks to yellows and oranges colours.

THE WORKSHOPS

Day 1 – SATURDAY 15th JULY

Session time – 10 am – 4 pm

Arrival from 9.30-9.45 am

We start the day settling into the picturesque location and energising with delicious locally made muffins and Refreshments.

10 am –

Everyone heads to the workshop location to meet Julia Rose. This is where the inspiration begins.

We dive in with a quick briefing, running over the creative schedule for the day before we head out to explore the farm, featuring fields of Tropical Flowers and a beautiful freshwater creek.

LET THE CREATIVE BEGIN

After our Farm tour, Everyone heads back to the workshop area and our hands-on creative journey begins.

We delve straight into our design, a wild rambling offset design. Featuring an abundance of fresh-picked Native Flowers, intertwined with a collection of Greenery.

In this session, we focus on techniques and the role each little bloom or piece of greenery plays within our design.

1 pm – Lunch break – We will serve up a fresh lunch.

There will be time to chat and enjoy the farm.

Oh and of course it’s photo time of us with our creations!

1.30 pm – Round two of creative

After lunch, we relax back into the workshop area and design a beautiful side crown, whilst indulging in some creative discussions on colour theory and techniques.

By this time we will be all fully relaxed and comfortable with each other so the floor is open for questions. This is where the knowledge is passed on, Julia is an open book, but not only that, we all share our wisdom and inspire each other. Whilst settling in for some wiring of pretty things and relaxing with refreshments.

And that is just day one!

Finish approx. 4 pm

Day 2 – SUNDAY 16th JULY

Session time – 10 am – 5 pm

9.45 am

After starting with refreshments everyone heads back over to the Barn to start the day.

10 am

Delve straight into the Creative adventure.

Today is fast-paced. Saturday is our ‘Relax into it’ day. Sunday is ‘Creative Whirlwind’.

Now that we are all completely comfortable, it’s time to step outside our comfort zone and implement the techniques we learnt yesterday designing a wild and totally fabulous over-the-top large wearable headpiece! Unleashing the inner eccentric, think big and bold.

Midday – Lunch break

Time to refresh with a lunch break. Another delicious homemade meal.

Large water containers topped with local citrus will be available throughout the workshop to rehydrate.

12.30 – Large set design and floral couture

The afternoon session is super exciting as we will do a group build, as a team we will design a suspended installation specially conceptualised to work with our chosen space.

We will step inside the space and discuss the ‘Vision’. We will build from the substructure up!

Touching on things like the role of light and colour and defining a clear goal for the end piece.

Set design is what we are after, we want to create a ‘Mood’ and we want that mood to relay to our viewer in the end image!

…And if that’s not enough we will also be designing a piece of Floral couture, something fabulous just to finish the look.

The group build will be followed by a photo shoot to capture all our magic!

3.30-4 pm

We Breathe and we shoot! During this time sweet little bowls of strawberries freshly picked from a local farm will be handed out to keep our energy up whilst we watch the creation be captured.

4-5 pm

The session ends and we all bask in the magic, knowing not only have we created something of beauty that will inspire many, but we have also just created memories that will last a lifetime.

Every attendee receives a HERO image of the group build.

All attendees (if they choose) will be tagged on social media when the Hero image is released.

Julia Rose also captures a collection of images throughout the sessions, which she will send to all attendees.