Work
A collection of floral installations, editorial styling, and sculptural studies exploring atmosphere, narrative, and form.
Editorial & Brand
Floral styling and visual direction for editorial photography, product imagery, and creative collaborations.
Ceramicist Commissions
Pi Potter Collaboration, 2025 & 2026
Luminous Regard
Kenna Bird Brand Collaboration, Dec 2025
Floral Studies
A series of floral compositions exploring form, texture, and seasonal materials. These studies serve as a space for experimentation with structure, color, and narrative objects, often incorporating locally grown flowers and unexpected elements to create small-scale botanical environments.
Autumn Classroom Study
Floral Study, Sep 2025
A jewel-toned floral composition created for a teacher appreciation series using locally grown seasonal materials including dahlias, amaranth, zinnias, cosmos, nigella pods, and black-eyed Susans. The arrangement was styled with classroom-inspired objects such as chalkboards, books, and gold-star apples to create a playful autumn classroom vignette celebrating teachers and the rituals of learning.
Meadow & Bliss
Garden Floral Study, August 2025
A sculptural floral study created using locally grown flowers including dahlias, zinnias, lavatera, bells of Ireland, and ageratum. The arrangement explores garden structure and movement through layered textures, soft pastel tones, and architectural green forms, drawing inspiration from late-season garden abundance.
Golden Hour
Summer Solstice Floral Study, 2025
Golden Hour is a seasonal floral study created in celebration of the summer solstice. Built from warm-toned blooms and airy botanical textures, the composition explores the softness and radiance of late summer light. The arrangement balances luminous color with natural movement, evoking the fleeting warmth of the longest day of the year.
Photographed by Kay Gilgan.
Installations & Events
Floral environments and sculptural installations created for celebrations and creative collaborations.
Forest Relics
Sculptural Floral Installation, Mar 2026
Forest Relics is a woodland-inspired floral installation built from moss structures, twisting branch forms, and layered seasonal florals. Designed as an immersive centerpiece environment, the piece explores asymmetry, vertical movement, and the feeling of hidden forest shrines.
Gilded Noir Evening
Event Design & Floral Styling, Oct 2024
A minimalist reception design exploring contrast and elegance through an ivory, black, and gold palette. Floral compositions and table details were intentionally restrained to emphasize atmosphere, balance, and sculptural form.
Sculptural Foundations
Before founding Beam & Bramble, Amber studied sculpture at Portland State University, creating large-scale narrative works exploring symbolism, humor, and cultural storytelling. These early pieces continue to influence her approach to floral design, where materials, movement, and environment are considered as sculptural elements.
951
Mixed Media Installation, 2012
951 is a large-scale sculptural installation exploring consumer culture, environmental loss, and the vulnerability of large animals within modern systems of development and violence. The work centers on a suspended full-scale elephant constructed from a military parachute draped over a bamboo and wooden spine with a sculpted chicken-wire and paper-mâché head. Beneath it rests a smaller elephant form built from chicken wire and hand-stitched burlap.
The installation also includes thirty-six hand-carved ivory soap bars displayed inside two vintage trunks, surrounded by soap shavings and spent bullet casings. These elements reference the commodification of ivory, the industrialization of consumption, and the destructive consequences of human expansion into natural habitats.
The work received the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2012 and was featured in the October 2012 issue of Sculpture Magazine. It subsequently traveled as part of the ISC award exhibition to Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, and later to the Bellevue Arts Museum.
Pinata Installation Series
Mixed Media Installation Series, 2013
BFA Thesis Exhibition, Portland State University
Created as Amber’s Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis at Portland State University, this series of large-scale installations reinterpreted traditional piñata forms as sculptural environments. Constructed from layered paper surfaces and hand-built structures, the works explored themes of ritual, celebration, and destruction through symbolic objects and playful yet unsettling forms.
The series was first exhibited as part of the 2013 BFA Thesis Exhibition at Portland State University and later featured at Blackfish Gallery in Portland, Oregon.