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, of imprint and of fragment.

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

From these elements, I create collages inspired by traditional botanical plates: one plant per composition, given pride of place.

In my digital collages, I mix prints of these plants, made in monotype or cyanotype, with details from engravings and old botanical journals, photos or personal drawings.

I transform my subjects by superimposing colors, textures, flowers with revisited proportions.

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

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

A selection of works by Les Fleurs Pressées is on display in Jardiniste's Botanical Gallery , alongside other pieces chosen with the same approach.