Chairman

Painter and physician. Born in 1948.
My encounter with the Amazon rainforest in 1982 was a major aesthetic and emotional shock. It profoundly altered my creative process: telling the story of an imaginary forest through sculpture.
Met Francis HALLÉ in 2008. Several associations were created: Tropical Forest: The Film, Forest Art Project, Francis Hallé and Primary Forest, Artborescences.
Entering into resistance for the Earth, living beings and forests.

Co-President and Head of Communications

He was born in Savoie in 1967, in the wilderness of the Alps, lulled by tales of family resistance fighters and Amerindian rebels.
Creator and entrepreneur in communications, design and graphic arts.
Builder of strong, enduring images for international and public-interest brands and institutions: Charter of Fundamental Rights, Sakharov Prize, Charter of Regional Nature Parks.
Director of the Musée de l'Eau since 2021, created by its visionary founder Yves Pillet.

Vice-President and Head of the Arts Division

Paul Ardenne is a writer and art historian.
He is the author of several books and exhibitions on environmental aesthetics, ecological art and the "Green Soul" spirit: Un Art écologique, exhibitions "Courants verts - Créer pour l'environnement" and "Âmes vertes, quand l'art affronte l'anthropocène", seminar "Green Soul. L'anthropocène, cultures, imaginaires"...

Vice-president and head of the Transmissions division

Emilie Chanteranne was born in 1978 and spent her childhood in the forests of the Vosges. A qualified SVT and dance teacher in high school, she has set up a number of committed projects around the themes of equality, life and art. After the aesthetic shock of discovering Pina Bausch, she was deeply moved by her immersion in the last primary forest of Bialowieza in Poland.

Vice-President and Head of the Science Division

Director of research at INRAE, Francis MARTIN is a microbiologist and mycologist.
He deciphers the language used by trees and fungi to communicate and establish mycorrhizal symbiosis, a crucial association for the proper functioning of forests.
He is the author of several books for the general public on forests, trees and fungi.

Secretary

A visual artist, Valérie Crenleux is involved in an interdisciplinary practice that explores new ways of telling the story of the world, our relationship with other living beings and the great cycles of the earth.
She is also a Visual Arts trainer in the medical-social sector, having previously been in charge of educational and cultural projects at the Chamarande departmental estate.

Treasurer

I was director of a cultural association for 25 years and have been organizing a jazz festival for another association for 28 years. Among other things, I'm responsible for monitoring the budget, paying invoices, paying artists' salaries...
So I know how an association works. 

Director

French artist originally from Nicaragua, professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art (ENSA) Dijon.
Since the early 90s, his work has focused on art and the Anthropocene. His History paintings evoke wars, migrations or global ecological catastrophes, in connection with major climatic problems, with geographical indications, such as the GPS coordinates of the disaster site itself, painted or sculpted in. He exhibits in France and abroad, and organizes several art conferences, including HEARTH.

Director

Archaeologist, historian, film-maker, General Curator of Heritage for the City of Paris. Head of the theater bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1980/1990), then in national and international broadcasting (1990/2000); Deputy Director of Communications for the City of Paris (2000/2003), then at the Direction des Espaces Verts et de l'Environnement (2003/2014); General Curator of numerous exhibitions in France and abroad and author of books on Paris. President of the Association des Amis de Frans Krajcberg, she runs the Espace Krajcberg, Centre d'Art Contemporain Art et Nature, and chairs the Art des Jardins section of the Société Nationale d'Horticulture de France.

Director

Rosario was born in Colombia, lived in Ecuador and moved to the Manosque region in 2000.
In Provence, she has developed a body of work in which light, color and movement capture the energy and vibrations of the elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire.

For thirty years, she has exhibited internationally and in France, and will receive the "La Targa Jean Giono" prize in October 2024.
She works with young people to pass on her work and protect the environment.

Director

Photographer, editor and teacher, Baptiste Lignel comes from photojournalism, to which he remains attached by his demand for factuality.

Since 2017 he has been working on our often dominant relationship with living things and the need to rethink it today. In particular in the book "Sauvage", produced with Gilles Clément.

Director

As an artist, gardener, art critic and curator, my work focuses on the work of artists committed to environmental issues.

I tend to develop projects at the crossroads of art, landscape, garden and botany...

Director

My first childhood memory of encountering centuries-old trees was at Fraser's Hill in the highlands of my native Malaysia. Many years later, as I traveled the world for my art projects, I realized that my intuitive link with trees is still present, that these beings among the oldest on Earth are often part of my plastic creations...

Director

Interior Architecture at Académie Charpentier and Graphic Arts at Estienne-Corvisart Paris, then Media Institute at Grenoble Alpes University. Creative and artistic direction, Groupe SP3 Communication, Triangle Industries B2B, ILSO Advertising. Writer and editorial consultant, member of the board of the art center "Le Magasin CNAC" in Grenoble, and of the "Amis du Magasin CNAC".

Director

As a researcher in ethnobotany in a multidisciplinary environmental humanities team, I work on the relationship between societies and forests around the world. I also carry out artistic work based on photography, which aims to tell a different story about our relationship with trees and, more generally, with living things.

Director

My eye was sharpened by my training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lodz, Poland, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France.
I have developed a plastic relationship with photography. In my artistic practice, photos are composed like paintings.

Photography, by default, is about drawing with light. I'm "photosensitive", constantly researching and reacting to visual variations in my environment. This is my link with nature and the living world.