Verneuil

Verneuil’s botanical designs bloomed at the height of the Art Nouveau movement - transforming plants and natural forms into rhythmic, ornamental beauty. His work quietly resisted a world that favoured academic painting over decorative arts, and his name, like so many pattern-makers and illustrators of the era, faded from view.

While not openly LGBTQ+ (due to the time he lived in), Verneuil’s works carry visual and thematic connections to other queer artists of the Art Nouveau era - flourishing ornamentation, stylised male nudes, and eroticised natural forms. He was also closely aligned with symbolist and esoteric art circles, which were often spaces for coded queer expression.