Episode 4: Sugar Flower Artist and Mischief Maker

Alex Narramore, sugar flower artist, discusses her art form, love of gardening and source of inspiration.Alex Narramore owns The Mischief Maker in Lexington, Kentucky.  She is a botanically accurate sugar flower artist and grows all of the flowers in her gardens that she uses later as live references to sculpt her sugar flowers.  Alex works from the design stage to the finished  product, incorporating the art skills of drawing, sculpting, baking and painting along the way.These sugar flowers adorn the cakes that she designs. Each sugar petal, stamen, and flower part is made by hand and each finished bloom is hand-painted. The cake designs are retired immediately after having been created and are never reproduced again.  The detail work for each cake is painstaking and can take many weeks of preparation. Alex  works with her mother on the sugar flowers at her grandmother’s house in eastern Kentucky.  Whether at Mamaw’s or at home downtown in Lexington, she can always be found somewhere between the garden and the studio, usually with her much-loved Irish Setter, Mocha, at her heels.Alex has been recognized world-wide within her field, including several periodical publications and news outlets, and was named one of the top four international wedding cake designers of 2015 by the Cake Masters, and the 2017 winner of the award for international wedding cake artists of the year by The Golden Tier Awards.  In 2018 The Mischief Maker was named one of the top 10 cake artists in the United Sates by Cake Masters magazine.  She has taught and given lectures at several National Gardening Clubs, and is soon to publish her first book Mischief Maker, Inspirations and Musings of a Sugar Flower Artist.See pictures of her work at https://www.artsconnectlex.org/no-4-alex-narramore---sugar-flower-artistmischief-maker.htmlFor more and to connect with us, visit https://www.artsconnectlex.org/art-throb-podcast.html