Hirō Isono was a Japanese artist born in 1945. In the 90s he worked on the art direction of video games and published several books throughout his life. All of them reflecting his one big love: the forest.

There is a small group of painters who are able to invoke nature’s serene magic in a baffling tangible way. Isono is one of them and joins the ranks of these master revealers previously featured on DOP:

Eyvind Earle — Tomás Sánchez — Henri Rousseau