photo Theresa Bear
Françoise Weeks was born in Belgium and started her business in 1996. She has infused her work with a quintessential European reverence for flowers and nature. Combined with creativity and mechanical ingenuity, she has crystalized her singular style of Textural Woodlands and Botanical Haute Couture pieces, garnering a global following.
Françoise’s studio is located in Portland, Oregon. Her generosity of knowledge and perspective in use of floral materials, structure and mechanics, in addition to the business of being a florist, unite to create rigorous and exciting learning opportunities for her students to explore all that nature has to offer.
Her innovation and love of teaching have brought her to many cities in the US in studios, at wholesalers, at garden clubs, Art in Bloom events and conferences, including at AIFD Symposium. She also taught in Mexico, Canada, England, Sweden, Iceland, France, China and Australia.
In 2019 she was invited to participate at two international flower events in Belgium : Flower Time at city hall in Brussels and Fleuramour at the medieval castle in Alden Biesen.
Her dynamic work has been published in national and international publications such as Nacre, Fusion Flowers, Modern Wedding Flowers, Huffington Post, Flutter and Millieu.
Françoise’s studio is located in Portland, OR where she teaches and offers online courses, including Zoom workshops.
Her book “The Herbal Recipe Keeper” was published by Timber Press in 2018.
Most recently in 2024 her newest book “Wonder of the Woodlands” was published by Penguin Random House.