(ALMOST) IKEBANA by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, The Gardening Drawing Club
(ALMOST) Ikebana by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck & The Gardening Drawing Club is a limited-edition, hand-produced publication by Poetic Pastel Press, featuring The Gardening Drawing Club's archive along with new contributions by George Collum, Viola Maccreli, Miriam Melake, Kasia Murfet, Sam Skinner and Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck.
The publication grows out of (Almost) Ikebana, an ongoing workshop series rooted in Tagada Hoffbeck’s long-term artistic and pedagogical practice and developed within The Gardening Drawing Club, a collaborative initiative founded in 2021 offering free arts and horticulture events. Bringing together observation, drawing, gardening, conversation, flower arranging, and tea, the project approaches ikebana with respect, humour and openness. The workshop series is an entry gate to Ikebana, not as a fixed discipline but as an inclusive, transnational practice grounded in care, ecology, attentiveness, and co-creating/learning. Since 2022, the series has taken shape through 17 free public workshops alongside sessions with schools, universities, and community groups.
Produced in December 2025 in a limited edition of 200 copies during Tagada Hoffbeck’s residency at Oxford Brookes University, (ALMOST) Ikebana extends the workshops into print. As an object, it plays with the notion of “almost”: almost elegant, almost a book. Edited by Johanna and published by Poetic Pastel Press, the publication gathers drawings, processes, and reflections that foreground slowness, collective creativity, and ecological care.
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Title
(ALMOST) Ikebana
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Authors / Editors
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, The Gardening Drawing Club
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Publisher
Poetic Pastel Press
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Pages
25
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Dimensions
210 x 297 mm
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Format
Softcover
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Year
2025
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