Приехал в Париж в 1971 году, работал садовником и флористом, одновременно учился на ландшафтного архитектора. Чтобы научиться выражать свои фантазии в этой области- пошел учиться рисунку и гравюре на вечерние курсы под руководством Jean Delpech. Что интересно- у него тоже есть своеобразный алфавит из растений.
The French printmaker François Houtin (1950- ) is an artist whose work has been devoted almost exclusively to the depiction of imaginary gardens. Houtin was born and grew up in Craon, near Mayenne, in the rural Haut-Anjou region. He moved to Paris in 1971, from which time he worked as a gardener and floral designer, while training to become a landscape architect. Finding his horticultural visions at odds with real-world constraints, he sought alternative means of bringing them to life, and began studying etching and engraving at evening-classes under the direction of Jean Delpech.