About
Greetings! I'm Marie Woznicki. Originally from France, I've been living in Richmond, Virginia for the past eight years. My love for gardening began with my dad and grew stronger during my time at Windhaven Flower Farm in King William, Virginia.
I use resin to immortalize the beauty of flowers in my creations. Each piece I make features flowers in a relief style, giving them a lifelike appearance, as if they were freshly plucked from the garden.
I'm all about sustainability. I try to only use locally-grown flowers in my work.
My Process
I work with flowers in a very gentle and slow way, using two main drying techniques: silica sand and air drying. Silica helps keep their shape and color beautifully, while air drying gives a more natural, softer finish. I’ll sometimes press flowers too, but only when it really suits the piece I’m creating.
Most of the flowers I use come from my own garden, ones I’ve picked at a local flower farm, or blooms that have been gifted to me. I love the idea of giving each one a second life—especially those tied to special memories.
The drying process takes time. Air drying in particular can take several weeks. I let the flowers rest and change at their own pace. When they’re ready, I carefully remove them, store them gently, and sometimes let them dry a little longer. Only then are they ready to become part of something new.
There’s a lot of care in every step. No two flowers are ever the same, and that’s part of what makes the process feel so meaningful to me.
Working with Resin
Resin is something I learned along the way—mostly through trial and error. There were a lot of mistakes at first, and honestly, there still are sometimes. But that’s part of what I love about it. I'm always learning, and each piece teaches me something new.
The process is slow and takes a lot of repeating. I pour the resin in layers, little by little, making sure it reaches all the intricate parts of the flowers. Sometimes I use a tiny brush to guide it in, or a toothpick to hold a bloom at just the right height or angle. There’s a lot of tapping and adjusting to get the finish just right. It’s delicate work, and it takes time.
I think of it as a way to protect the flower, to hold onto its beauty a bit longer. I’m not a scientist, but in my own way, it feels like a kind of personal botany—preserving not just how a flower looks, but how it felt to hold or receive it.