Quentin Pouyat
BIOGRAPHY
I grew up in the north of France on the edge of a great forest.
After high school, my passion for plants and for nature led me to study agriculture for several years. During this period I continued with a childhood pastime of copying drawings from my favourite comic books.
I was about twenty-two years old when I bought my first brushes and set of paints. This was the beginning of a long series of portraits, faces from distant lands, eyes from other continents caught by the lenses of travelling photographers.
I had had a taste of those distant lands and they still called to me.
My growing interest in medicinal plants finally took me to the Amazon rainforest, where I encountered the ancient medicine of the Shipibo-Konibo people. My experiences left a deep impression on me and gave new impetus to my artwork and creativity, so that from then on my style became much more colourful and more personal. This was the visionary art that had always fascinated me.
Painting was no longer just a pleasure; it had become a means of expression,.
I went back off and on over the years to study plant medicine, but now taking paintbrushes in my pack. And over the long weeks and months in the jungle, in close contact with the plant kingdom, I found what my heart wanted most to do, to depict plant medicine in paintings.
Artistic approach
Learning from plants is a slow and demanding process. Only when we’re alone, calm, and introspective, can plants communicate through our minds, our emotions, and our dreams.
Each plant has its unique medicinal sphere. The ancient medicine of these rainforest people, through the visions it induces, enables us to explore those worlds. Each time I meet up with a new plant, I take time to feel, to explore, to listen to what the plant wants to share with me. Then I use my visions, feelings, and knowledge to create a portrait of the plant.
This process is my way of weaving and strengthening bonds between me and the plants I meet, co-creating with them in order as best as possible to share and spread their medicine.
Exhibitions
2024​​
Salon des Arts Ré-Visionnaires (Suisse)
Espiritu libre (France)
Isis garden Festival (France)
Origine Festival (France)
Hadra Festival (France)
Ozora (Hongrie)
New Healing Festival (Allemagne)
Exposition permanente Kumankaya Healing Center à Mexico
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Re-Visionary symbol: I leave my work free of copyright so that it can be shared among people who wish to reproduce it in the spirit of the Collective, as long as they indicate me as author.
Copyright symbol: I am the copyright holder of my own works: my work cannot be reproduced, except by the Re-Visionary Art Collective, under the conditions as indicated above in point 1. Unless I give my written consent.