LOVELY COVEN

Floral practice · Nob Hill, San Francisco

Every arrangement mood altering.

Lovely Coven is the floral practice of Brandon Joseph, Artist Ephemeral. Thirteen works a week, each one named, made once, and entered in the Botanical Grimoire.

Sculptural arrangement of twisting branches, red foliage and flowers, and cascading burgundy amaranth in a tall brass vase against a marble wall
The House Has Taken a Lover | Solstice
APPROX. 72” H × 40” W × 30” D

Selected Exhibitor · Bouquets to Art 2027 · de Young Museum, San Francisco

One pair of hands.
Thirteen works a week.
When the week is full,
the week is full.

13works a week,
never fourteen
10patrons a year,
by introduction
1name per piece,
recorded in the Grimoire

01 · From the Grimoire

Selected work

A floral portrait with a watchful sculpted face emerging beneath its blooms

02 · Patronage

Ten patrons a year.
A standing place in the work.

A patron's home receives a named Full Moon commission every month, first claim on the week's thirteen, two gifted portraits in bloom, and a private atelier for their table. The founding ten are numbered in the first printed Grimoire.

$18,000 a year · by introduction

Read about patronage

03 · Commissions

Other ways into the studio

Brandon Joseph in a dark work jacket and woven cap, seated on stone steps beside a pink bucket overflowing with roses

04 · The practice

A director who works in flowers.

Brandon has spent fifteen years staging work for audiences. He builds a piece the way he builds a scene: where the eye enters, what it discovers, where the weight falls, and how it leaves.

Meet Brandon