Karen Barnes
With over 40 years’ experience, Karen Barnes is one of the UK’s leading consultants to the floral industry…globally. An expert high-profile wedding and event floral planner, trainer, educator, prominent international judge, creator of trend directions and a 1-2-1 business overview consultant.
Since 2024, Karen has been part of Lego’s Botanical Collection Design Team, a pinch herself moment everyday!
Karen has been awarded RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold, Silver-Gilt and Bronze medals and in 2016, led the Interflora Design Team at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.to achieve another RHS Gold medal.
After being awarded a scholarship to attend an AIFD symposium, Karen got the bug for AIFD, and was inducted in San Fransico. She has had the privilage of being a headline designer at three symposiums in the USA and was awarded Laureate status in 2022.
Karen travels nationally and internationally, working on society weddings, royal events, celebrity weddings in London, New York, Dubai, Mumbai and Turkey.
Her style and influences come from new flower varieties, nature, fashion, art, travel and emerging trends from around the globe.
More recently, Karen was instrumental in the organisation of the Interflora World Cup 2023 held in Manchester, UK. As well as being solely responsible for the Floral Décor throughout the venue of this world class prestigious event and competition. Twenty competitors from around the world gathered to compete against each other, against the clock in front of a live audience over 3 days.
Karen is a qualified National & International Judge and is proud to be one of the founder members of The UK Floristry Judges Guild.
Amongst many judging assignments, a highlight has been to judge at World Cup competitions in Shanghai, China, Philadelphia, USA and an ambassador judge in Berlin, Germany.
Her work has featured in numerous magazines and TV programmes and has presented the Great British Bloom off, Interflora Live and Wild about Flowers.
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Karen Barnes NDSF IPF AIFD CFD CAFA UKFJG UKFJG
