Wild in Bloom: Maximalist Floral Designs from Europe, Asia, and My Own Backyard
In this season of B Wild Studios, flowers play the starring role.
From the dewy petals of a peony in Kyoto to the wild vibrant ephemeral poppies of European wildflower fields—or even the first bloom of a backyard zinnia—my work draws from gardens that burst with life, color, and the kind of quiet magic that only nature can create. My maximalist floral designs are deeply rooted in real-world inspiration, gathered from my travels across Europe and Asia and lovingly grounded in the plants I tend right outside my studio window.
🌼 Maximalism and Magic
Like a field full of surprise wildflowers, I lean into a maximalist style: more color, more detail, more joy. My approach to floral design is intentionally lush and layered. Think tangled vines, blooming abundance, and petals piled on petals. Like a flower itself, each composition is a celebration of the magic that is a flower from seed to bloom. In my work you can experience the magic I experienced in the energy of Marché Aux Fleurs - Cours Saleya - Nice (add in my painterly stripes and it’s as if you are under the markets canopy yourself!) to European wildflower fields in peak bloom—when nature is unapologetically full and gloriously chaotic.
🌿 European Influence: Marche Aux Fleurs & Wildflower Fields
While living in Germany, pregnant with my third baby and with her two sisters alongside, I’d take daily walks to a poppy filled wildflower field in the village where we lived. Although the farmers tended the fields around it with the precise attention and neatness Germany is known for, they left this wild unruly piece of land to grow free amongst the neat plowed symmetry of the surrounding fields.
On the weekends, I’d bring watercolors out to plein air paint and a picnic for the girls, attempting to capture how the wind moved the flowers among the grass. Each angle a new perspective, experience and exploration. The symmetry was soft, the colors playful, and the wildflowers — poppies, cornflower, daisies and phacelia — seemed to spill over themselves like they were each vying for the spotlight. I took the inspiration home to my little top floor studio with the light pouring in and onto my canvas from the skylight and painted ladies perched on and surrounded by poppies.
In Spain, my girlfriend and I stopped our rental car mid-drive to capture ourselves frolicking in wildflowers.
In France, I gave my heart to the Marche aux Fleurs in Paris and Nice and the flower boxes of the Alsace region. (Provence and your fields of lavender - I’m coming for you next!) These experiences have influenced my current collection of florals including the Daphne Collection where you’ll find both poppies and painterly stripes resonate of the Marche aux Fleurs canopy stripes —an ode to joyful disarray and sun-soaked movement.
🌸 Asia’s Elegance: Line, Balance, and Botanical Storytelling
My time in Japan and Southeast Asia taught me a different kind of floral appreciation. There, the garden is a place of deep symbolism and poetic rhythm. In Kyoto, every flower placement felt intentional. From the flower boxes to floral arrangements to the flower patterns adorning kimonos. I became captivated by the subtle balance of ikebana (the Japanese art of Flower arrangements or literally “giving life to flowers") and the seasonal shifts celebrated in temple gardens. This influenced experimentation with storytelling in my work, through shape and negative space—still maximalist, but with a sense of reverence and flow.
Cherry blossoms, the occasional lotus and regularly climbing wisteria often find their way into my art not just for their beauty, but for the emotions they carry—fleeting joy, quiet strength, rooted wisdom.
🌻 Back Home: Wild Beauty in My Own Backyard
Yet some of my most meaningful floral pieces come from moments at home. This year, on the cusp of spring with a new baby in my arms and in the midst of a midnight breastfeeding session, I emotionally ordered hundreds of flower seeds truly considering taking up flower farming (obliviously tired but exceedingly happy newborn moms can relate). I planted zinnias, snapdragons, scabiosa, ranunculus and more all in chaotic patches in the unused spots of our garden. Here is the thing, our yard both front and back is beautifully landscaped and whoever did it timed all the flowers so from the start of spring it feels like every week something new is blooming - first daffodils, , hellebores, snowdrops then peonies, hydrangea both stargazers and traditional, roses (of course), iris, lilies, hibiscus - flower after well planted flower. So me throwing seeds here and there was not without a lot of side eye from my husband. My thumb isn’t that green but I am determined to expand my daily muses—with more and more freshly cut flowers, set beside my sketchbook, painted in soft pastels, and layered into patterned worlds where garden and imagination meet.
This is where my heart lives—in the spaces between cultivated and wild, real and romantic. These backyard blossoms remind me that inspiration doesn’t always require a passport; sometimes it’s just a walk outside.
🖼 From Garden to Canvas
Every B Wild Studios floral pattern begins with a hand-painted piece. I work in soft pastels, ink, watercolor and oil, often combining traditional drawing with painterly collage to build richly textured designs. These pieces are digitized into patterns that are bold yet feminine, maximal yet intentional, and each one is an invitation to step into a dreamscape of color and botanical storytelling.
Whether it’s a wallpaper design for a nursery or a fabric print destined for dresses and linens, my goal is the same: to bring the joy of the wildflower fields and backyard gardens indoors, wrapped in all their maximalist beauty. Thank you for walking through the blooms with me.
To see my latest collections, visit @bwildstudios on Instagram or explore my licensing lookbook.
Stay wild, stay blooming.
— B Wild 🌷
