Great News! We have been able to book Matt Wood, AIFD & Sean Quinn for this Sunday’s Santa Ana Free Christmas Design Show. They will be custom designing throughout the day. Come learn some of the latest design tips and see our new products. Show Details
Matt Wood, AIFD
Born and raised in a small town in Mississippi, Matt Wood, AFID has long been inspired by the lush natural scenery and rich graceful heritage of America’s Southern states. He is particularly moved by the seasons of the year, which mark not only the glorious changes in the physical world but moments of our lives as well. To talk with Matt, one soon learns that his personal mission has long been to bring the field of permanent botanical into a new light…. For individuals to see them as another way to express a love of the flora and fauna that surround each of us.
Matt is an exceptional designer, his incredible sense of color and texture, combined with his ability to breathe life into the same permanent botanicals he spends so much of his time creating in factories around the world is simply unparallel… When designing, he gently turns the flower’s head to face the light source and flexes the leaves as if they have just received a long, cool drink of fresh water. All these special touches result in floral designs that may fool even the most avid of gardeners.
Matt is Creative Director for Winward International, the premiere manufacturer and distributor of handmade permanent botanicals and seasonal décor and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sean Quinn
Sean is a resident of Long Beach and has served his community having been an independent floral designer and owner of a retail flower shop, Floral Craft for ten years. He has been involved in the floral industry for over 35 years. Sean is no stranger to Orange County. He started his floral design career at Tustin Florist and Flowers by Morri, Costa Mesa and continues to work in the area. He served as Vice President of the Orange County Floral Association and as the Teleflora Representative for Orange County. He has held head floral design positions for Phoenix Decorating for the Tournament of Roses Parade: Winning the Grand Marshall Award, The Princes Award, The Sweepstakes and Isabella Coleman Award for Kodak. He created headdresses for Damas de Caridad, Los Floristas an organization noted for raising money for Saint Judes Hospital. He has also worked in the television and movie industry as floral designer for Everyone Loves Raymond, The West Wing, Days of Our Lives, Sabrina and Passions.
Sean currently is on staff at Shinoda Design Center, Santa Ana responsible for visual display designing end caps, floral design and customer consultation. He has also been teaching beginning floral design classes for Orange ROP floral program as well as conducting floral classes for Orange County Wholesale Flowers. Sean is a design consultant for GSC, Inc., a silk floral importer. He travels to China several times a year to design and create floral products and designs for furniture stores, gift shops and for the wholesale floral industry. For the past seven years, Sean has created visual displays, silk floral arrangements and custom arrangements for LMA Enterprises at the LA Mart, down town Los Angeles, CA. In 1996 Sean received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts and Dance for CSULA.
