Nature’s natural art

Jill O’Keeffe, flowersmith at Wild, at the Marina Commercial Park, Cork, with the natural style bouquet she made after foraging for wildflowers, grasses and foliage; below Jill forages in the locality for her source materials.Pictures: Denis Minihane.

Jill O’Keeffe is a trained florist, with the highest professional qualifications it is possible to acquire in Ireland and Britain, but her similarity to the Interfloras of this world end there.

Jill has also ‘studied’ in the world at large during extensive travels through Europe and the US and what she calls a period ‘going feral’, living in the New Forest, in England.