My work illustrates the Tree in its environment, in its space.
My approach is before all “esthetics”, I tried to show the Tree in one Moment when it seemed to me magic, where it attracted me by its beauty and the emotion which I felt by meeting it.
When that was possible, I was interested in his history, his life, I for that exchanged with specialists in green spaces, biologists, owners of grounds etc
All this information helped me to know it, with best feeling, to feel it.
I came to see it at various times of day and of the year, hoping to collect the light which surrounds it and transforms it with the liking of the seasons.
I traversed the Normandy country with his skies of painter. This area where I live, offer of numerous species to be immortalized and with the advantage of having a seaside, a plain, hills, thickets, hedges, wood, forests: trees in multiple jewel cases.
Moreover, I went in Botanical gardens to seize some specimens planted on our premises by famous travellers. I added to this unit some stereotypes of my own travel.
I hope that we will share these Moments of beauty, history, emotions, vagrancies, also of dreams.
Roger Toutain
