One of the beautiful features of "Rose Garden" is the generous application of hand-made roses to the limited edition figure.

Peter designed her head-piece to take some stunning showpiece roses, the main one being a peony rose, skillfully made and designed by our flower-maker Denise.

Denise is not just an ordinary a flower - she is extraordinary for a couple of reasons.

First, she is an 'arranger and designer' as well as a china flower maker. From the tradition where china flower making was the start of the skills, which then progressed to china flower designing and arranging.

"It is not just my skills which are being preserved and recorded for posterity within the UK Figurine Collective, please take the time to read the special email booklet they have prepared."

The arranger was trained to go beyond the skills of china flower making (which are incredible in their own right), to the artistry of being able to set out and design intricate arrangements on premium limited edition figurine pieces.

Secondly, Denise is one of the few working bone china hand-made flower makers and arrangers working in Staffordshire (and possibly the whole of the UK) today.

We are extremely fortunate to be able to work with Denise, who has been an edition figurine flower maker for Coalport for 25 years, until her recent redundancy. To watch her take tiny flakes of clay and fashion them into a perfect flower is breathtaking.

She makes it look effortless, how she crafts individual petals between her fingers, before assembling them into a perfect rose or any other flower that you may care to task her with making.

Notice the large rose in the center of the arrangement is a different type of rose. It is a 'Peony' rose and especially enhances the look and feel of this piece.

Peter Holland wrote an interesting story where things so nearly went wrong, about the design of this central arrangement. Catch up with this by signing up to the topical talk news/updates emails here:- Collect Figurines Topical Talk Page.