Beauty lives in all the spaces - atop mountains, in the wide open prairie, and especially, in our own backyards…
…notice everything
From The Heart Petal Art is a small artisan studio based in Southwestern Manitoba. Using homegrown and ethically foraged botanicals, I create one-of-a-kind artwork that aims to be both beautiful and meaningful. Each flower or foliage is traditionally slow-pressed for 4-6 weeks before being reimagined into framed art pieces that will complement and bring warmth to any space.
Pressed flowers allow us to stay connected to nature all year long. Fresh blooms last days in a vase and weeks in a garden, but pressing botanicals ensures that we can savour them for seasons to come!
Compositions come in a variety of sizes, palettes, and styles. From 3x3 minis to larger meadows and medleys, there is truly something for everyone. Each piece includes a thoughtful hangtag complete with a hand-written "ingredient" list.
Bring nature inside
Mountains + prairies = dual citizen
My childhood belongs to British Columbia’s beautiful interior. I was shaped by the forests, valleys, trails, and of course, the flowers. I befriended the blooms not cultivated in gardens, but growing in all the wild places - untamed, resilient, and free.
My adult years belong to the prairies and I have come to love the wide-open spaces and vast skies. I am friends with the flowers - the roadside ones, windswept and wild. Both of these landscapes are an important part of who I am and I have long since called myself a dual citizen.
There is an invisible force that connects us, tethers us to the land.
Nature is both my inspiration and my medium.
I have been fortunate to keep my connection to the mountains alive all these years. Countless road trips west have allowed me to explore familiar and new spaces and bask in its uniquely diverse landscapes. Each visit provides new inspiration and reaffirms my affection for my home province.
In 2022, my children gifted me a book about pressing flowers. It resonated with me deeply to know that I could using pressing as a way to hold on to summer, to colour, to land. As a creative person without a creative practice, I knew I had finally found my medium. And that elusive “spark” we hear about? Well, it happened, and it has led me down a beautiful trail of experimentation, creativity, and loads of adventure. Since that pivotal day, I have worked to establish a backyard pressing garden rich in variety of colour, shape, and size. It has been my goal to continually add more native species - both prairie and mountain - to bring a little more “home” right in my own backyard.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing this space, and these stories, with me. It means the world.
Sincerely, Debbie xo
