Trees are recurrent in my work, they are the other companion, they offer a way of representing roots, belonging, shelter, endurance, strength, stability but in today’s world they can show the exact opposite because of the destruction of our eco system…the tree as a silent witness or as the memory of the soil uprooted by man.
Xavier Verhoest
The shadow of the trees wrote a text that they erase (for Palestine), mixed media on vinyl, 120x75cm, 2024The Tree of Life (for Palestine), mixed media on vinyl, 100x100cm, 2024–25Study for a Tree (in green), mixed media on paper, 42x28cm, 2024Dans les veines des hommes (III) for Palestine, mixed media on paper, 20x15cm, 2024If you are not rain, be tree (for Palestine), mixed media on paper, 85x120cm, 2024Behind this Tree, I have a Sky for (for Palestine), mixed media on vinyl, 100x75cm, 2023Se ci fosse la luce, sarrebbe bellissimo (3), mixed media on vinyl, 110x75cm, 2023Se ci fosse la luce, sarrebbe bellissimo (2), mixed media on vinyl, 100x70cm, 2023Anatomy of a Tree (2), mixed media on vinyl, 110x110cm, 2023Study for a tree, mixed media on paper, 28x40cm, 2023Ombre essentielle, Mixed Media on vinyl, 95x95cm, 2022Reflection (of the Tree), mixed media on paper, 100x75cm, 2022Arbre que nous apprenons seulement à connaître, mixed media on vinyl, 125x125cm, 2022Time is one spreading ring, Mixed Media on vinyl, 130cmx100cm, 2021–22Anatomy of a tree, mixed media on vinyl, 140x95cm, 2021Here (Breathing), mixed media on paper, 185x150cm, 2021The Tree of life (3), mixed media on vinyl, 110x90cm, 2019Mugumo, mixed media on vinyl, 100x70cm, 2019Regarder le Monde, mixed media on Vinyl, 100x70cm, 2019L’Arbre du Ciel, mixed media on vinyl, 100x100cm, 2018La Matiere de l’Arbre, mixed media on vinyl, 110x70cm, 2016J’ai ma terre seconde, mixed media on paper, 42x29cm, 2011Baobab, mixed media on vinyl, 120x100cm, 2009De l’autre cote, mixed media on paper, 50x35cm, 2007La terre nous est etroite(1), mixed media on metal, 130x65cm, 2005
“We know so little about how trees grow. Almost nothing about how they bloom and branch and shed and heal themselves. We’ve learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.”
