A look at nature, by Cruschiform

From May 23 to July 19, 2025, the Gallimard gallery is pleased to welcome the work of author-illustrator Cruschiform. On this occasion, some fifty illustrations from her two major works published by Gallimard: Colorama , imagery of shades of colors and L’odyssée des graines , as well as illustrations commissioned for major institutions, are brought together. The exhibition highlights the work carried out by Cruschiform over the past twelve years around the theme of nature.

© Francesca Mantovani

"After years in Paris that quickly became fruitful, the return to her native land, the Cévennes, was the beginning of a long process. Cruschiform roamed the woods and fields and gardened; one could not help but think of Madame de Sévigné, who described in her letters how she looked at nature: "... covering it with her eyes, until the moment when a fusion took place between the one who looked and what she looked at."

Colline Faure-Poirée, editor

From the formal design of seeds to the multiple shades of color that shape our environment, not to mention the architectural lines of landscapes traversed by light, shapes, colors, and lights compose a hymn to biodiversity. Bringing science and art into dialogue, the artist offers us a sensitive and analytical approach through highly contemporary drawings.

The landscape is treated in turn as a setting to inhabit, a backdrop for stories about the natural sciences, or the medium for a fertile imagination. Cruschiform shares with us his marvelous view of the plant world, pays homage to the richness of life and invites us to admire it in order to better protect it.

“Cruschiform paints, draws, and lays out with the tools of the twenty-first century, the computer being his brush. When you look at the multiplicity of drawings and graphics, it is evident that the mastery of the tool is of the order of perfect balance, as a virtuoso musician might play, without a single false note, and with a freedom of expression that conveys his elegant and whimsical personality at the same time. (…) Each project is an invitation to observe what surrounds us near or far like an insatiable little collector of images.”

Philippe Apeloig, graphic designer and typographer