I'm Eléonore d'Hauteville, founder of Jardiniste and the artist behind Les Fleurs Pressées. This name signifies another, more intimate side of my work.

Through Les Fleurs Pressées I explore a recomposed botany, a botany of memory, imprint and fragment.

Season after season, I gather plants, flowers, stems and leaves during my walks and travels. I press and dry them, slowly building a personal library of plants.

From these elements, I develop two complementary approaches, inspired by traditional botanical plates: one plant per composition, given pride of place.

In my collages, I use these pressed and dried plants, or their imprints made through monotype or cyanotype. These cut fragments are then combined with art papers to create unique compositions.

In my digital pieces, I also compose from this library of plants, adding details drawn from engravings and antique botanical journals, personal photos or drawings. I transform my subjects through layers of colour, texture and flowers with reimagined proportions.

I am not seeking scientific rigor, but a sensitive memory of the plant world, a transformed trace, a silent presence.

I live in Paris, but my gatherings often take me back to the Mediterranean of my childhood. I create from what grows around me, what I gather, what I keep.

A selection of my artwork is presented in the Les Fleurs Pressées collection, within Jardiniste.