Jacques Geslin created a Haitian forest drawn from his imagination. From 1978 to 1985, he exhibited chiefly in the United States, the Dominican Republic, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and France. In his book Peintres Haitiens, the author and art critic Gerald Alexis states, “Conforming to the tradition touching upon the depictions of paradise, Geslin excludes all human presence from his works.”