Floral and Biophilic Art with Gugui
Let loose and experiment with flowers in Madrid. Forage in the countryside and explore the freedom of floral art techniques to make paintings, biophilic designs, or arrangements. A relaxing and creative adventure filled with nature's beauty in the heart and soul of Spain.
- Snacks, Coffee, & Tea
Pricing
- One Guest
- USD $1590
- Additional guest(s) (max 2)
- USD $1185
Meet the Artist
Gugui is a floral artist, event designer, and biophilic designer for interiors. She creates floral installations, arrangements, landscapes, and paintings that connect us to nature and improve our well-being. As the granddaughter of watercolor artists, the daughter of an antiquarian father, and a mother with a gift for decoration, she grew up influenced by the exquisite sense of beauty. She built a strong attachment to nature at her family farm, surrounded by holm oaks, pine forests, mountains, secret places, and imaginary worlds. As a designer, event design, painting, graphic design, fashion, interiors, gardening, and landscaping to all versions of Biophilic design.
Her aesthetic is organic and natural, seemingly untidy like an English garden. She follows the flower shapes and lets herself get carried away by their forms, guided by the harmony in nature. She mixes foliage and greenery from the countryside with dried, preserved, and recycled materials. Everything revolves around Nature, the greatest source of inspiration that brings energy to our life.
When you arrive, you'll find her flower garden and creative studio to be a playground of ideas, encouraging you to create and have fun while making beautiful things. Her flower garden is an invitation to discover beauty in unexpected places, while her studio is a “creative refuge for botanical souls.” In Gugui’s creative world, intuition guides used and familiar objects into vessels for new stories.
She says, "The real goal is to enjoy the amazing sensation of self evolution through your artistic path..." Vamos, let's go.
Her aesthetic is organic and natural, seemingly untidy like an English garden. She follows the flower shapes and lets herself get carried away by their forms, guided by the harmony in nature. She mixes foliage and greenery from the countryside with dried, preserved, and recycled materials. Everything revolves around Nature, the greatest source of inspiration that brings energy to our life.
When you arrive, you'll find her flower garden and creative studio to be a playground of ideas, encouraging you to create and have fun while making beautiful things. Her flower garden is an invitation to discover beauty in unexpected places, while her studio is a “creative refuge for botanical souls.” In Gugui’s creative world, intuition guides used and familiar objects into vessels for new stories.
She says, "The real goal is to enjoy the amazing sensation of self evolution through your artistic path..." Vamos, let's go.
VAWAA Includes:
- Create floral arrangements, floating installations, miniature landscapes or mix flowers and paint to create paintings.
- Learn to create art or spaces with fresh, dried, recycled, and other natural materials.
- Focus on creating a “feeling,” your own style that represents you as an artist, not just a decorative composition.
- Explore materials, supports, and techniques for your floral paintings or creations.
- Floral arrangements: play with flowers and floral art techniques to create table centerpieces, bouquets, bridal bouquets, and large floral urns.
- Paintings: learn to explore abstract worlds of colors and textures through intuitive painting on canvas using various types of paints, preserved flowers, and other natural materials.
- Floating floral installations, clouds, or biophilic trees: learn how to design, build, and hang your creations using handmade preserved, dried & fresh flowers, other natural materials, wool cords, chains, costume jewelry, stones, beads, wooden planks, ropes, wires, ladders, etc.
- Miniature landscapes: capture a landscape on a wooden board that transports you to a magical place using preserved flowers, foliage, moss, any kind of recycled materials, ceramics, glass, broken mirrors, textiles, wool, figurines, even photographs. The possibilities are endless.
- Option to go foraging on a one-day trip to La Abadía de Párraces (Segovia), a magical place in nature, an impressive 16th-century renaissance monastery and Gugui’s childhood home, for an additional fee.
- Option to have a professional photoshoot of your floral creations for an additional fee.
- Option to practice photography for Instagram, product photography, styling, and photographic composition for an additional fee. You will learn to take professional photos alongside Gugui and photographer Ruth Roldan.
- All materials and tools are included – best quality of fresh flowers, preserved flowers, dried flowers, as well as canvases, tablets, frames, acrylic paint, watercolors, sprays, materials to create structures, and tools.
Explore Madrid
The capital of Spain is world-famous for its architecture, culture, gastronomy, and people. But, let's not forget the sun and sky "de Madrid al Cielo," a phrase Madrilenians say because of the marvelous sunsets they enjoy. You can visit Museo del Prado, the main Spanish national art museum, stroll around Plaza Mayor and Parque del Buen Retiro, enjoy a flamenco show at Corral de la Moreria, or dine at Casa Lucio. With plenty of options to explore, Madrid will make you come alive.
The city is also Gugui's birthplace, giving her many creative, cultural, and educational opportunities. She has created a beautiful studio using second-hand furniture and handmade and recycled pieces. A place to get inspired and play.
The city is also Gugui's birthplace, giving her many creative, cultural, and educational opportunities. She has created a beautiful studio using second-hand furniture and handmade and recycled pieces. A place to get inspired and play.
Additional Details
It is best to visit Madrid in the spring, fall, and winter. It's best to avoid August due to heat, as well as Christmas and Easter holidays.
This VAWAA can be extended for up to 8 days for special projects or advanced techniques. Please include a note in your booking request.
As a mother of a child with neurological sequelae, Gugui's studio welcomes people with disabilities, special needs, children and seniors. There are steps to access the studio with a ramp for people in wheelchairs.
Gugui and speaks English and Spanish.
This VAWAA can be extended for up to 8 days for special projects or advanced techniques. Please include a note in your booking request.
As a mother of a child with neurological sequelae, Gugui's studio welcomes people with disabilities, special needs, children and seniors. There are steps to access the studio with a ramp for people in wheelchairs.
Gugui and speaks English and Spanish.
Guest Reviews
Sarah P., United Kingdom
I had a wonderful 3 days with Gugui and learned so much. Gugui is highly creative and she openly shared her techniques, ideas and experience.
She bought an abundance of fresh flowers for us to use and also had loads of dried materials and 'props' available.
Gugui enables creativity to flow! I totally enjoyed my 3 days and I went home with many ideas to put in place for both inside and Read moreIan S., United States
Gugui was a wonderful host. The first day, she drove us out to a forest near Segovia and we hunted for wild flowers, bark, leaves, and other "biophilia" to use in our projects for the rest of the week. From there, Gugui and I collaborated on a number of different pieces, exploring different styles and ways to work with natural materials. She was an excellent host and teacher, and I'm proud of the Read more
Sharon M., United States
There were so many memorable moments. It all began with working in Gugui’s studio, where we had access to all her tools and supplies, along with an abundant array of fresh flowers purchased just for us! Gugui tailored the experience to our needs and interests, guiding us through composition and structural techniques for small to medium-sized arrangements. But the highlight was creating two large i Read more
