Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen Makes Enormous Flower Bouquets Using Tissue Paper

Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen is a gifted Copenhagen-based artist who creates enchanting flower bouquets inspired by her childhood in the countryside and Danish folk. She uses tissue paper to make humongous petals and leaves. She says that each masterpiece is handcrafted and done without any patterns or templates.

“Thrift, hard work, and industry are required as well, in order for my artworks to grow into something other than the tissue they were,” the artist told Colossal. “Something must be small before it can be big, humble before it can be flashy—it is the contrast of nature that carries opulence within it and triggers our imagination. In my reworking, the tissue paper roots of the triffid may also become that of the rose.

Scott-Hansen graduated from The School of Design at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and during her career, she collaborated with famous clients like Elle Denmark, Karl Lagerfeld, and Hermès.

Scroll down and check out her colorful bouquets below.

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At work in @sanktjohanneskirke today preparing for the annual return of my four “angelic” paper angels 🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️ The pictures ( all from 2017) show one detail which is a centrepiece in all four designs: a rose made of multiple layers of transparent tissue paper. I think the light in the first picture captures the delicate tactility of the rose petals very well. The rose is shaped gently, caressing the thin leaves to help unfold the beauty and the sensibility of the plain and simple paper material 🙌 Sankt Johannes Kirke (in English “Church of Saint John”) in Copenhagen, Nørrebro, is open to the public Sunday to Friday. If you are in Copenhagen anytime from now until Epiphany, I invite you pay this place a visit. It is a beautiful, peaceful sanctuary in the middle of charming and colourful, but also noisy, Nørrebro. The tall spire of the church is my view from home. ✨🧚🏻‍♂️✨🌟⭐️🧚🏻‍♀️⭐️⛪️⭐️🧚🏻‍♂️⭐️🌟✨🧚🏻‍♀️✨ . #statenskunstfond #sanktjohanneskirke #contemporarycraft #paperroses #paperangels #papirblomster #papirroser #paperflorist #paperflora #paperfloral #instaflora #papperskonst #pappersblommor #fiberart #fibreart #fleursenpapier #papierblumen #fioridicarta #floraldecor #flowerart #floralart #botanicalart #instaflora #papercraft #flowerlove #handmadeflower #paperbouquet #diseñofloral #decoracionfloral

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