The year of the centenary of the death of Marcel Proust has just inspired a small group of botanical designers, led by two experts, Ariane Mercier (graduate of the English Botanical Illustration Society), and Elisabeth Vitou (professor at the French horticulture).
“
Our idea was to produce a series of drawings based on the writer's quotes on plants
,” explains the latter.
For this, Ariane reread the seven volumes of
In Search of Lost Time
and listed more than six hundred
.
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The twenty-four selected illustrators - amateurs, students of Elisabeth Vitou, but also professionals such as Béatrice Bergemont, Catherine Watters, Mahaveer Swami - then chose those that particularly pleased them.
“
These hawthorn flowers, like cheerful, dizzy young girls, flirtatious and pious…
” (excerpt from
Du Côté de Guermantes
) thus inspired Jacky Jousson, a famous book illustrator.
Béatrice Bergemont, meanwhile, has…
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