Blek le Rat "I remember to have seen in the mountain of Pyrenes in the '70s a young girl of 6 or 7 years old, talking with trees. She used to hug with her arms the trunk and put her ear on the bark of the tree and had a real conversation with them. This behaviour from this young girl puzzled me a lot and I always told me that some day I will have a tribute to trees. The Royal Parks Foundation gave me the chance to do it!"

Blek le Rat is a French "urban artist" born in 1951 and based near Paris, France. He Studied architecture and paintings at the "Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris".

He started to work as a graffiti artist in 1981 and is considered as the pioneer of the stencil graffiti movement. Hugely influential to the present generation of street artists, Blek's work bridges between underground street art and the mainstream art world. His work is represented in Great Briatain by Leonard Street Gallery, London.