For Christmas, you can give a tree that doesn’t wither but tells a story. A WHISPERING TREES | whispering trees artwork is a lasting gesture: a fragment of nature encountered in the world and carefully brought home.
After 12 years of journey, the series includes almost ninety works, all in limited editions. The choice is wide, but some are now close to the last available copy.
The Christmas initiative
If you order one of my fine art prints by December 10, 2025, I will include a small gift for you:
A complimentary fine art print (22.5 × 30 cm), chosen by me as a “kindred tree”, related in atmosphere and sensitivity to the one you will have chosen.
Accompanied by a double certificate of authenticity (mine and from the fine art laboratory)
Completed with a brief personal message on a USB drive, dedicated to the tree’s story
Accompanied, if you wish, by a personalized rendering in your space
Shipped for free (Italy and Europe, up to €50)
I have limited the initiative to December 10, 2025 to ensure delivery within the Christmas period, considering that each artwork is specially printed in Verona.
If you wish to choose a tree for yourself or a loved one, you can do so from the website or write to me directly.
Each tree is unique, like the story it contains
Giving a tree for Christmas: a gift that keeps on telling
In WHISPERING TREES, I sought a way to express the love I feel for trees, the closeness, the desire to protect them, the moment of embrace. But also the time dedicated, because this process requires much more than the few minutes needed to compose a beautiful image. For me, each tree is a story to tell, but above all, a wonderful experience to live.
A tree from the WHISPERING TREES | whispering trees series
Each artwork is numbered and signed on museum-quality Hahnemühle paper
Imagine the artwork in your space
Giving a tree for Christmas means offering a fragment of nature that continues to speak, even when the lights go out. Dimensions available: 45×60, 60×80 and 97,5×130 CM.
Visit the Gallery on the website to choose your tree or contact me directly for information.
A Walk Among the Wonders of Lessinia, in the Valley of the Sphinxes
At the end of March 2025, I discovered the Valley of the Sphinxes, one of the most fascinating places in the Regional Natural Park of Lessinia, in the province of Verona. It was a splendid day, with a blue sky crossed by white clouds, perfect for walking, observing, and allowing oneself to be surprised. The Lessinia attracts me in an irresistible way. Perhaps also because my paternal grandmother, whom I never knew, was born here. Every visit to these places gives me a feeling of deep and mysterious rootedness.
Shapes, Silences, and Encounters
The “sphinxes” are enormous monoliths of limestone shaped by time and atmospheric agents. The landscape is both primordial and surreal. Walking silently among these fantastic forms, I noticed a majestic solitary beech that towers on the top of a hill. From up there, it dominates the entire valley. I immediately felt it as a strong and gentle presence, stable and protective. A silent guardian. It came naturally to me to call it “The Guardian of the Sphinxes”.
The Birth of a New Artwork
As always, I first observed the tree for a long time. Then I started photographing. The process I follow is not random: each work is born from multiple shots conceived in sequence and subsequently overlaid to create a unique image, suspended between reality and vision.
The final result is a fine art photograph printed in a limited edition, part of my life project dedicated to trees. The image is the result of photographic overlays performed on-site, without random interventions in post-production. Every step is guided by what I feel.
If you wish to see the creative process that led to the birth of this work, I have created a short video-story in which I accompany the observer in the Valley of the Sphinxes, among the rocks of Lessinia and the visual genesis of the final work. 👉 Watch the video
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That hugging trees is good for your health is certainly not discovered by me. La silvotherapy, also called dendrotherapy, tree therapy, tree hugging, or contact with nature and embracing trees, is am ancient practice. It consists of a real therapeutic method of treatment and prevention of diseases through trees. Let me show you the last one I hugged… I found it in a hamlet of Udine called Bonavilla, and it’s a pedunculate oak, Quercus robur, commonly known as oak.
Da questo incontro meraviglioso è nata l’opera che vi mostro a fondo pagina e che ora fa parte della serie “Alberi che sussurrano”, il progetto di vita attraverso cui cerco di esternare in fotografia quello che provo per gli alberi da cui sono più fortemente attratto.
to find it follow the signs for the Parco del Beato Bertrando/Bonavilla, Pasian di Prato (UD), about 9 km from the A23 motorway.
It was a splendid winter day, full of light, and a place filled with natural sounds and historical memories. She was there; it seemed she was waiting for me. As a “tree photographer” many friends who care about nature and the environment had told me about her. But the encounter was still a surprise to savor slowly, just the way I like it, approaching without haste. I find it hard to put my love for trees into words; it’s easier for me to do it through my photos. I hope this manages to convey to you even just a part of what I felt. In any case, if you’re in the area, I recommend seeking her out and letting yourself be bathed in the wonderful sense of well-being she radiates. Her energy and therapeutic power are immense and available to everyone… Hugging trees is wonderful!
In my project “Whispering Trees” the subjects I embrace are almost always isolated. In fact, I rarely take pictures of attached trees and the reason is due to the fact that I can not perceive their individuality. It may happen, however, that if some trees are close together but in an open space, I feel them as an unicum. As if they supported each other and their energy came out multiplied by this closeness. Here’s one of those situations.
This is the same group of trees That I had discovered, by chance, driving on the Lessinia mountains …
Below are the other cases, so far, in which I had felt the same feeling. In order:
White poplar, Francolino – The beech trees of Monte Cucco – The two giants – White poplars 2 – Symmetries.
In this first solo exhibition dedicated to trees, I displayed two projects in an art gallery: Whispering Trees, formerly known as “HUGS”, featuring black and white photos that represent my love for them, and in the second room, …because trees cannot fly. Color photos aimed at raising awareness about environmental issues.
