Végétaux by Henri Matisse Size:M - 50 x 70cm Japanese Birch Trees by Nicholas

Japanese Birch Trees by Nicholas places slender birch trunks within a graphic landscape that blends contemporary illustration with the visual economy of Japanese design

As a landscape and travel subject

and artisanal knowledge

rewarding careful looking at every scale

Every coastline and contour line remains precisely legible

Végétaux by Henri Matisse Size:M - 50 x 70cm Japanese Birch Trees by Nicholas'Vgtaux' ('Plants') belongs to the body of large format cut outs Matisse created in the early 1950s, when physical limitation led him to work at an architectural scale with painted and cut paper. Organic leaf and frond forms, rendered in flat chromatic fields, are assembled into a composition that breathes with botanical rhythm. There is a directness in the shapes each one cut in a single confident gesture that gives the work an almost monumental