Quentin is a french visionary painter. After a Master’s degree in agriculture he traveled in South America and the Peruvian jungle leaded by a deep call for healing. The encounter with plant medicine is for him a decisive creative turning point.

Since this time, he share is life between agriculture, plant medicine and painting.

His art has been deeply nourished and inspired by the Medicne and the years of healing and learning that he has experienced with traditional shipibo plant diets. Through his art, he endeavors to translate essence of the unique wisdom, knowledge, medicine, and visionary worlds of the master plant.

Biography

Plant Medicine and Artistic Approach

Since 500 million years ago, plants have colonized the Earth, developing, diversifying, and evolving with the divine intelligence of God. The botanist Francis Hallé explains that the tree is an achievement in itself. It is easy to observe the complexity and refinement of plants and trees. They are highly sophisticated beings.

Our modern society sees plants as passive and inanimate living beings. The medical approach is mainly based on a chemical perspective for physical healing purposes. Yet ancient traditions such as Chinese medicine and Ayurveda have long understood that their medicinal properties affect not only the body but also emotional, energetic, and spiritual dimensions.

In the Amazon, indigenous cultures have cultivated a deep relationship with plants for thousands of years. For them, plants are conscious beings, with wisdom, knowledge, and personality. The gap between our world and the spirit world is very thin for these people. This world is not a belief, it is a reality for them.

Over time, they have established interspecies communication with plant spirits through traditional medicine, known as “La Medicina.”

Among these traditions, the Shipibo-Conibo have discovered and mastered a healing and learning process called “Sama.” Sama is the keystone of the medicine, and it translates as a master plant diet. It is a process that involves many restrictions, discipline, and isolation, allowing the subtle energy of the plant to grow and work on all aspects of the human being—physical, emotional, and energetic. Through this process, plants teach, heal, and guide us back into harmony with ourselves, nature, and God.

My artistic practice emerges from the heart of the diet. Through many diets in the jungle, I explore and experience the unique healing and teaching of different medicinal plants and trees, and discover the beauty of their visionary world.

With the goal of painting a plant portrait, I gather visions, teachings, dreams, knowledge, sensations, and atmospheres, and seek to express the essence of each plant.

In the Shipibo tradition, healing is carried through “Icaros,” songs learned directly from the plants. But any creative process guided by the energy of the plant, with this intention, can become a medicinal expression. Singing and painting are my ways of sharing the medicine I have received from the plants.

Nowadays, we are searching for other forms of intelligent life in the sky and in distant galaxies, while we are already living with highly intelligent beings here on this planet.

They have much to share, and we have much to learn.