Presentation
Annie PATTERSON & Frédéric DEPALLE
France
Exposition
The exhibition we propose to you constitutes in a pooling of our passions for plants, and more particularly here for the Irises of the section Oncocyclus, of which some species are among the rarest plants in the world, with geographical distributions of only a few thousand square meters. These irises grow in the Caucasus and in the Middle East, hence their common name of Irises of the rising sun. We have been working with Annie for 3 years on this project combining watercolours and photos and we have chosen to exhibit 15 species (8 are presented in this project), each ones is illustrated by a botanic watercolour, an in-situ photo on site and a flower taken in a studio photo ; these choices to appreciate different approaches of the plant and to approach part of the work of the botanists.