"Flowers are essential in every aspect of life, especially to underline the significance of life's passages. I have lived in large open spaces with no furniture excpet a single hand-blown vase filled with flowers...and I have always felt wealthy. Flowers represent life and joy and hope. I have traveled through narrow European streets only to look up and be greeted by a red geranium on a balcony. The language of flowers is universal."
Catherine Conlin established Wiggy Flowers in 1994 after having been asked to create the flower arrangements for three family weddings. Weddings have since become the medium for her to create the beauty she feels compelled to create. "I have tried my hand at painting and writing and music and nothing seems so natural an occupation to me as floral design."
Ms. Conlin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Marketing with supplementary education in Painting and Art
History. She attended Floral design classes while holding an apprenticeship with Caroline Rousset-Johnson, a
Parisian designer who owned a shop in California.
This year she started an affiliated designers program which serves as a consortium for like-minded high-end
floral designers around the world.
Other future ventures include the launch of her company Still-life with Goldfish which includes image-management
and web design and plans to introduce a line of elegant bridesmaids' coordinates to converse with her flowers.
People often ask, "How did you come up with the name Wiggy Flowers?" Catherine responds, "Wiggy was an adjective
that became a proper noun and then became an adjective. To me Wiggy means free-spirited and unconventional
thinking--trying to push the limits of one's imagination. Flowers are the perfect medium with which to express
my wigginess."
