Five Beautiful Things

Changing Leaves

As Lorenzo Duran-Silva watched a lonely caterpillar chew a design out of a leaf, he became convinced that he had found his artistic calling. The former construction worker, who lives in Spain, had spent a few years painting with oil on canvas but it was his fascination with nature and the precision of architectural design that led him to create magnificent art using leaves as his canvas.

Lorenzo begins by collecting leaves that are suitable for leaf cutting (usually broad leaves) and then he begins to sketch ideas for his cutting design. The process of cutting is a painstaking one that requires an enormous amount of patience and skill. Lorenzo developed his own method, one that he guards quite closely. Below are five examples of his beautiful, intricate leaf art. If you’d like to learn more about his process and see more of his designs, click here