Florist Leigh Chappell shares her small business story. Originally a graphic designer, she took up a friend’s suggestion to take a floristry course and then decided to change career. She now creates wedding flower designs, runs workshops and is also co-organising the upcoming Strawberry Hill Flower Festival.
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- Leigh shares her small business journey after initially studying botanical illustration, she worked as a graphic designer in London
- How a conversation with a friend led to her taking a floristry course
- Her floristry career began as a freelancer, then she took over 20 weddings from a florist who was moving away
- How she now works on her own and continues to create wedding flowers, but also runs group workshops and 121s
- How she uses Instagram as her digital portfolio
- Her reasons for choosing a dark aesthetic for her photographs
- Information about the upcoming Strawberry Hill Flower Festival, which she's jointly organising with Janne Ford
- Details of an installation which she'll be co-creating at the Oriel Myrddin Gallery in Wales
