Dune Bouquet | Gathered Impressions (One of a Kind)

Where the Dunes Become a Composition

Crafted by CEDAR Y SAND in our East Hampton studio, Dune Bouquet brings together hand-gathered and pressed botanicals with the fluid movement of traditional Suminagashi. Each piece begins with 140 Ib watercolor paper, individually marbled by hand as ink floats across water, creating an organic pattern that can never be repeated.

Over this one-of-a-kind ground, flowers, grasses, and delicate field botanicals gathered in East Hampton are individually pressed, selected, and composed by hand. Rather than preserving a single specimen, Dune Bouquet brings many gathered elements together into an abundant botanical arrangement—rooted in the landscape from which they came.

Gathered, Pressed & Composed by Hand

Part of the Gathered Impressions collection within our Suminagashi Impressions series, each work explores the meeting of two fleeting processes: the spontaneous movement of marbled ink and the seasonal character of gathered flora.

In Dune Bouquet, soft greens, muted golds, lavender, and weathered meadow tones rise loosely across a pale Suminagashi ground. The composition recalls the informal beauty of late-summer grasses and wildflowers—gathered rather than cultivated, and preserved at a particular moment in the season.

Every botanical element was gathered and pressed by hand in East Hampton, NY. Variations in color, form, and texture are inherent to the natural materials, while the Suminagashi beneath them exists only once. The finished work is an original, one-of-one composition.

Matted to Endure

This original, one-of-one artwork is professionally presented in an archival 12" x 16" mat with backing board and an 8 1/2" x 11 1/2" art opening, and arrives ready to frame. From the hand-gathered East Hampton botanicals to the hand-marbled Suminagashi created in our studio, Dune Bouquet preserves a singular gathering of place and season through ink, water, flora, and hand.