Q+A Amongst Puur Anders

Today's Q+A takes us to the Netherlands to interview Miranda van Dijk of Puur Anders. I've admired Puur Anders for a few years now, alongside her beautiful cloth flowers as well as leaves that she applies photographs to, readymade or custom ordered. Such a precious gift to laissez passer on for Mother's Day, a bride, a grad, fifty-fifty yourself. Here's her bio as well as answers to some of our questions.

Bio:
I was born inwards 1976 inwards a small-scale hamlet close Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Nowadays I alive inwards a larger hamlet nearby my hometown alongside my hubby as well as our boy of 3. In 2008 I started Puur Anders, a styling as well as blueprint studio. Puur Anders way pure as well as unlike inwards Dutch.

Tell us a footling combat virtually you. Where did yous prepare or report as well as what led yous to the path yous currently are on?
I’ve studied Tourism as well as economic science later high schoolhouse as well as worked every bit a pr-advisor for a banking concern for several years. I quit my twenty-four hr menstruation project when I started studying Interior Styling. It was great, the inventiveness as well as conceptual working! Finally I works life what I was looking for all these years. I thought. But what I loved most was the creating process. And doing something of my ain as well as non working for a company. Now I remember I’m to a greater extent than an independent creative mortal than a stylist, but therefore I didn’t realized that. Between the schoolhouse assignments I’d already created the flush concept ‘Abandoned past times Nature’ virtually the final adult woman on globe who is abandoned past times Mother Nature. For this concept I crocheted nighttime safe bloom jewelry. I started selling these items on markets as well as galleries as well as Puur Anders was coming to live.

What's your principal focus currently and/or how would yous describe your electrical current blueprint aesthetic?
Today I’m working on my collection Hidden Memories. H5N1 collection of leaves as well as flowers printed alongside vintage photographs. It is inspired past times the connectedness betwixt nature as well as humankind. Somehow it has ever been an lawsuit inwards my work.
Although I brand leaves as well as flowers alongside my ain pictures works life on Etsy as well as fleamarkets, my principal focus is custom work. I similar that a lot, working on an social club alongside a customer’s photo. Photographs are of import memories as well as making a leafage or bloom of it is really worthwhile.

Love your run - tin yous explicate that blueprint process?
Ideas ever popular upward when it is placidity inwards my head. So I ever comport a notebook alongside me. It is sum of ideas sometimes alongside a elementary drawing or a clipping from a magazine. Some ideas volition remain at that spot until I’ve works life fourth dimension for it or an thought how to hit it. Most of the fourth dimension I guide maintain to offset alongside the stuff correct away. So I tin works life out whether it works or not. Last twelvemonth I’ve noticed I guide maintain to ship my experiments on social media (facebook as well as blog) to instruct some comments on it. Positive reactions are such a boost for my run process.

What designers/makers/architects, etc exercise yous expect upward to, are influenced past times or inspire you?

I instruct inspired past times therefore many wonderful designers, photographers, makers as well as bloggers. I similar dreamy as well as poetic run a lot. On my weblog I portion my inspiration. Here are some sites.

Barbara Munsel http://barbaramunsel.com/
Lyndie Dourth http://lyndiedourtheworks.blogspot.fr/

Frieda Mellema http://www.lab71.nl/
Humanoid http://www.humanoid.nl/
Kirstie van Noort http://www.kirstievannoort.nl/
Mady Dooijes http://anabundanceof.blogspot.nl/

Where else exercise yous describe inspiration from?
Everywhere! Nature, citylife as well as simply unopen to the corner. I’ve works life a beautiful leafage lately. It was simply on my doorstep. Pinterest, blogs as well as facebook are also really inspiring!

Any sneak peeks or plans yous tin portion of novel or time to come things on the go?

Well, I’m working on a lot of novel flowers for framing or to position inwards a vase. My dream is to brand a whole bouquet alongside retentiveness flowers as well as branches. Or decorating a wedding ceremony alongside my work.
And on my ain site (in Dutch) I opened my Mooie Momenten Tuin, which way ‘Garden of Beautiful Moments’. It is a digital garden where I portion the stories behind the flowers as well as leaves I’ve made for my customers as well as myself. I desire it to last a garden of inspiration as well as sum of memories where yous tin wander around. It is a identify for celebrating as well as cherishing the beautiful moments inwards life, similar marriage, nativity as well as holidays, but also a identify for goodbyes as well as memories of people who aren’t hither anymore. Cherishing them.

It is a offset as well as I permit it grow wild as well as peaceful at the same time. I don’t know where it volition guide maintain me, but I similar the thought of beingness inspired or moved past times the stories I listen of my customers.
The garden on my site is inwards Dutch, but I’ve opened an English linguistic communication version too: http://gardenofbeautifulmoments.blogspot.nl/

Thanks Miranda.  Visit Puur Anders online:

Website: www.puuranders.nl
Shop : www.puuranders.etsy.com
as well as at at marketplace.poppytalk.com/author/puur-anders/