Emotions and the Ephemeral World of Florals
with Leanne Trivett S.
January 14 – February 11, 2026
Course Description
Flowers are an ideal vehicle for expressing personal narrative through imagery. With their vibrant natural beauty, they invite photographers into an evocative realm of emotion and dreams, where relationships are revealed and beauty emerges.
A background in music and theater has equipped Leanne with the know-how to craft dynamic narratives, and she cultivates a safe and supportive environment for participants to explore new artistic approaches while offering gentle individual coaching to help deepen their creativity.
Our time together is spent in group sessions engaging in lectures, sharing multimedia work by inspirational artists, and reviewing participant work. We discover how the act of combining camera techniques, color, abstraction, writing, and collage can bring a unique, contemporary twist to our imagery.
By celebrating the imperfections in nature and letting our imaginations run wild, we make connections between subject and self, calling on emotion, experimentation, and storytelling to enhance our work.
Join Leanne for a deep dive into the ephemeral world of flowers. As you push your botanical images further than ever before, your photographs transcend the pictorial to become engrossing tales of art.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
Working knowledge of digital workflow and manual mode on your digital SLR or mirrorless camera. Participants must be able to download and select images using image editing software for class sessions.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 12:30 – 2:30 pm (Mountain Time) on Wednesdays starting January 14 and ending February 11 (five online group sessions). Enrollment is limited to 12 participants.
Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.
Policies:
View Withdrawal and Transfer Policies for online programs.
For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
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Leanne Trivett S. is a photographer and visual artist whose work moves between performance and stillness, using florals and self-portraiture to explore identity, emotion, and inner narrative. Her images exist in a space where the theatrical meets the intimate—constructed worlds that invite the viewer to linger, feel, and reflect.
Holding a BFA in Theater from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Leanne’s foundation in musical theatre and her career as a professional singer deeply inform her visual practice. This performative lineage surfaces through gesture, symbolism, and a heightened sensitivity to emotional tone, allowing her photographs to function as both portrait and performance.
Leanne is best known for her vivid self-portraits and expressive floral work, where color becomes language and the body becomes landscape. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, FotoFest in Karuizawa, Japan, Barcelona, Spain, and PH21 Gallery in Budapest, among others. Her photographs have been published in Shots Magazine, Art Ascent, Black & White Magazine, Dodho Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine, and numerous exhibition catalogs and books.
As an educator and speaker, she shares her creative process in workshops with Santa Fe, while creating in her studio near Asheville, North Carolina. Recent solo exhibitions include The Dual Breath: Inhale Me, Exhale Me, The Woman Colour Built, Navigating in Traffic, and Pisces Dipped in Fantasy – bodies of work that continue her exploration of vulnerability, transformation, and the emotional resonance of color.
Website: leannetrivettsphotography.com
Instagram: @leannerockstar
