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4 November to 30 November, 2024
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DISCOVERING FLOWERS , new exhibition by artist Anne Fouetillou at the Provincial Historical Archive of Avila .

Bogolan Flowers has designed a new exhibition for the Provincial Historical Archive of Avila after a year collecting, pressing and classifying plants.

On this occasion, in an attempt to publicize the botany of our country, especially that of Castile and León, Anne Fouetillou presents 12 paintings of 1 x 1.30 meters.

Antonio González Canalejo , a foreigner from El Barco de Ávila, has identified all the plants during this time. He has a great knowledge and experience in botany and also in the history and use of plants.

To reflect the beauty, colour and variety of the plants, pieces measuring 1.29 by 3.60 metres have also been designed in Japanese paper, which allows for the beautiful archive room.

This year, watercolourist Peggy Johnston is also collaborating. We have counted on the biologist Antonino Moreno Rodríguez , a naturalist by vocation and amateur botanist "I have been going out to discover nature for more than 30 years, especially in the Sierra de Guadarrama".

There are always flowers for those who want to see them!

  • Anne Fouetillou

She was born in Paris and studied Foreign Languages at the University of Bordeaux. The daughter and granddaughter of gardeners, she soon inherited a sensitivity for the care of flowers and dedicated herself to carrying out the pressing technique, perfecting it with different methods. Upon her arrival in Spain, she continued to cultivate her passion and research the different varieties to press, which she collects on her various trips around the world. "I only want to bring the beauty of flowers and gardens closer to people’s daily lives, so that they can enjoy them by perpetuating their beauty in the objects that furnish their homes," says the creator. Anne Fouetillou shares her great passion for flowers with bookbinding, a craft that she has learned and practiced at the schools of Ana Ruiz Larrea and Dolores Baldo.

The artist, who has lived in Segovia for over 30 years, carries out the entire process of the work, from careful selection and collection in fields around the world, to pressing, drying and preserving natural flowers of different species, such as cosmos, pansies, brambles, bougainvillea, hyacinths, daisies and a long etcetera that flood all kinds of supports, paintings, furniture and decorative objects with colour. The flowers are glued onto handmade paper, sometimes painted with watercolours by Peggy Johnston, who is also responsible for enhancing and restoring flowers and leaves.

  • Antonino Gonzalez Canalejo

A graduate in pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid, he has practiced his profession in his birthplace: El Barco de Ávila, a town of which he was mayor and of which he is currently the Official Chronicler. Master of Environmental Sciences from the University of Salamanca, collaborator of the Natural Sciences Section of the Gran Duque de Alba Institution and since 2021 a full member, he coordinated the fourteen editions of the Summer Conference on the Sierra de Gredos organized by the UNED- Avila, the University of Salamanca and the Official School of Tourism of Castile and León. He has been a speaker in numerous environmental education and environmental awareness courses organized by departments of different public administrations in the regional scope of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. He has collaborated in the teaching activity of different universities aimed at students of these centers and which has had as its objectives the physiographic and environmental recognition of areas of natural interest of the Central System.

PhD in Geography from the University of Salamanca, in 2015 he defended his thesis on Regenerationism and the Free Institution of Education in the discovery of the Spanish mountains: Guadarrama and Gredos. In 2016 he directed the UNED course in Avila dedicated to the theoretical-practical knowledge of the Botany of the Spanish Central System and in 2017 the one entitled Landscape and Heritage of the Iberian Mountains: Future Challenges, held in El Barco de Ávila. In 2022 he co-directed the exhibition Modus faciendi cum ordine medicandi. Pharmacy, the art of making medicines, exhibited at the Cultural Space of El Barco de Ávila and in the Provincial Historical Archive of Avila.

Address and map location

  • Postal address Archivo Histórico Provincial de Ávila - Pza. Concepción Arenal, s/n. municipality of Ávila . NaN. Ávila