About Les Fleurs Pressées

My name is Eléonore, founder of Jardiniste and artist behind Les Fleurs Pressées. This namemarks another facet of my work, more intimate.

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

Season after season, I gather plants, flowers, stems, leaves, during walks and travels. I press them in a wooden press, gradually building a personal botanical library.

From these gathered materials, I create collages inspired by traditional botanical plates: one plant per composition, each one given a place of honour.

In my digital collages, I combine plant imprints, created through monotype or cyanotype processes, with elements drawn from antique engravings, botanical journals, photographs, or personal drawings.

I transform these elements through overlays of colour, texture, and proportion.

I’m not seeking scientific accuracy, but rather a sensitive memory of the plant world, a transformed trace, a quiet presence.

I live in Paris, but my plant gathering often takes me back to the Mediterranean landscapes of my childhood. I create from what grows around me, what I glean, what I keep.

A selection of works signed Les Fleurs Pressées is available in the Botanical Gallery at Jardiniste, alongside other pieces selected with the same eye.