Treeskulltown is the conceptual avatar of a French multidisciplinary artist based near Lyon, France. He reworks classical and historic oil paintings by adding colourful animation, turning them into moving digital artworks recorded on the blockchain. He calls this approach Subrealism, merging the physical texture of oil paint with digital distortion.
His early series The Key of Amaranthes reworks historic portrait paintings around the amaranth flower, an ancient symbol of immortality. He has summed up the series' idea of selfhood as “us, we are our own inner gold”. Since around 2012, he has taught his son and other children to draw every Friday near Lyon, saying “we learn as much from children as we transmit”. He treats that childlike freedom, working without judgment or fear of being wrong, as central to how he approaches his own paintings.
