The Fine Art of Paper Flowers: A Guide to Making Beautiful and Lifelike Botanicals

An inspiring, practical and gorgeous guide to crafting the most realistic and artful paper flowers for arrangements, art, décor, wearables and more, from San Francisco botanical artist Tiffanie Turner.

The Fine Art of Paper Flowers is an elevated art and craft guide that features complete step-by-step instructions for over 30 of Tiffanie Turner’s widely admired, unique, lifelike paper flowers and their foliage, from bougainvillea to English roses to zinnias. In the book, Turner also guides readers through making her signature giant paper peony, shares all of her secrets for special paper treatments, candy-striping, playing with color and creating botanical imperfections, and shows how to turn paper flowers into gorgeous garlands, headdresses, bouquets and more. These stunning creations can be made from simple and inexpensive materials and the book's detailed tutorials and beautiful photography make it easy to achieve dramatic and lifelike results.

Tiffanie Turner is a fine artist, retired California architect, and instructor in the art of paper flower making in the United States and abroad. Her work explores nature and botanical specimens in extremely large and sometimes very small scales, in paper. Her work has been exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Bedford Gallery, Jack Fischer Gallery, Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Palo Alto Art Center, the Asian Art Museum, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, where she was the artist-in-residence in May 2016. Tiffanie is the recipient of the Pirkle Jones Fund Visual Artist Grant and a Zellerbach Family Grant, and her work has appeared in Vogue, American Craft, T Magazine, The New York Times, Colossal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and O Magazine, among others. Raised in the woods of New Hampshire, Tiffanie lived in San Francisco for almost twenty-five years before moving to West Marin, California, where she currently resides with her husband and two children.