Selected Artists 2024
Tom Andries
Tom Andries (b. Leuven 1969) is a Belgian multidisciplinary designer and contemporary artist. His main body of work consists of monochromes painted in heavily textured black ink. Tom uncovers the essence and hidden beauty of typography, abstracting basic geometric forms from letters. Trained as a typographer and graphic designer.
Tom Andries’ artistic practice consists of series of abstracts painted in black ink directly onto the canvas. With a few strokes of a heavy brush, he covers the surface from edge to edge, creating abstract forms derived from typography. Often working in black on white, he purposefully uses curve-linear and angular compositions to add tension. Tom has developed his own ink with a very specific viscosity – a mix of acrylic, Indian ink and charcoal – which gives every painting a surprising depth. Inspired by minimalism, modernist painting and mid-century architecture, his work reflects an ongoing quest for the absolute minimum. Tom’s canvasses convey an extraordinary calmness and a natural spontaneity at the same time. |
Kaatje Arickx
The two media Kaatje Arickx uses when creating her works are mainly charcoal on paper and oil on canvas.
In charcoal drawings, she first sets out the rough lines with the charcoal sticks and then finishes further with her hands and fingers.... Thanks to the pressure used during this process and the choice made between wiping out the charcoal or not, an effect is created which can not be achieved with pastels or pencils. This way of working feels very earthy and primitive comparable to the prehistoric cavemen who used their hands to apply coloured earth in their caves. On canvas, she usually uses oil paint. Because of its colour intensity, fluidity and smell, Kaatje finds it a tremendously pleasant medium to work with. She mostly creates character heads with it or fictional scenes where the viewer can fantasise their own story. This is why she doesn’t often give her works a title even though she has one in her head. It would only push the viewer in one direction when it is much more interesting to hear what is going on in the viewer's head. As if the viewer's subconscious is stirred up when seeing the work. |
Caroline Baek
Paint is a remarkable and rich medium and my longstanding, close companion. Wherever I am, I observe and explore the nature of the world. In Mexico, a land of drought and innocent colours, soft pastel makes its mark, naturally expressing monolithic hues and powerful light. In the thick yellow mist of Laos, colours infuse for a long time before revealing themselves on shining silk. It is in this watery environment that I dipped my brush in the Mekong to mix it with flowing ink.Since then, my own story has become intertwined with my work. For over six centuries my family have been seafarers. Naturally, I found myself unable to resist and I set sail through the waters, using gouache to carve out the void.
Soon, my Flemish heritage led me to oil painting, despite the complete paradox of using oil to depict water. However, it is not about trying to become the next marine painter, but rather, about understanding the sea and translating her wisdom using lines and colours. |
Els Baekelandt
Els Baekelandt was born in Zottegem, Belgium in 1963.
From 1981 till 1985, she studies Applied Arts at The Luca School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium. From 1986 until 1999, she works as a graphic designer and calligrapher in the studio of the famous French artist Claude Mediavilla in Paris, where she develops her extremely distinctive style, working on corporate logotypes, image advertising, headlines, titling for posters and books, and layout. From 1994 till 2014, she is in charge of the conception and layout of art books, catalogues and the magazines Art & Métiers du Livre, Art de l'Enluminure and Métiers d'art published by Éditions Faton, Dijon-Paris. In 2007, she sets up a workshop/gallery in La Charité-sur-Loire, Burgundy, France. From 2011 till 2013, she lives in Madrid. From 2013 on, she lives and works in Spain and in Ghent, Belgium. In her nature paintings, Els depicts the beauty of plants, flowers, landscapes and still lifes in all their simplicity with a quirky magic-realist touch.She uses various techniques including collage, watercolour and gouache. The works are subsequently given a layer of wax for protection. |
Sevan Bicakci
If anyone ever deserves the nickname of crazy, it's Sevan. Which person encourages himself to swim in the deepest, most dangerous and unknown seas, which person would risk his career and his experience every time he designs a new collection?
What person relies so intensely on the powers of his talented abilities? Sevan emphasizes that he does not design ornaments, but he does design unique and valuable jewelry collections. His actual success lies in the hidden details from which you can derive the craftsmanship of traditional goldsmithing, painting, sculpture and calligraphy. The secret of his creativity is hidden in the country he lives in. He is imbued with the richness of Istanbul's history, a composition of centuries-old civilizations with feelings of mutual love and tolerance, an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Sevan Bicakci writes jewelry history! |
Petra Bonny
Petra Bonny is a designer and artist from Aalter. She attended artistic schooling (drawing and graphical techniques) at academies in Eeklo, Ostend and Ghent, and later specialized in surface pattern design.
"I love jazz. During live concerts, I can greatly enjoy the way the music, through interpretation, association and interplay, swirls around one central melody. My admiration for this is reflected in the way my collections and projects are created." |
Christel Bruynseels
After my Regency Plastic Arts at the Heilig-Graf Institute in Turnhout and specialization in painting at the Art
school in Antwerp, I ended up in the shoe fashion world. After more than 20 years of running my own business and raising the children, I’ve picked up the thread again. Traveling to Sicily with a borrowed camera from a friend, I fell under the spell of photography. I started photography in 2015 at the Institute of Decorative Arts and Crafts in Antwerp and successfully completed it in 2017. After a specialization year in 2018, I enroll at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in the direction of Photo-Art to refine my work and graduated in 2022. Inspired by the nature, the world around us, my images are impressions of a world that passes me by, exploring the border between photography and painting. In my images, there is an element of mystery what reflects my being. Everyday, banal things inspires me to create picturesque, poetic scenes. I’m fascinated by what I can’t see but which appears through observation. Behind the banal everyday world lies another, still unknown world and photography, visual art is the best way to get to know it. “I don’t go looking for reality, reality comes towards me and I make it my own reality.” |
Tiziana Buffagni
I am passionate about the HUMAN CONDITION, connection of body and soul, which I honour in my portraits and nudes. I capture, through form, the mystery of the soul, the energy, and the movement of life. In my artwork I find this movement in small gestures, to which I pay particular attention, like hands, feet, expression and movement of hair and draperies. Beyond human models, it is also NATURE a major source of inspiration, with its textures, shapes, and colours, from the infinitely small cell structures mirroring the infinitely large structure of the universe. Organic or geometric movements, the pulsation of life, which I find in my subjects. What I'm ultimately looking for is theSPIRITUAL LINK between all of this. Between the body and the soul, between humans and natureand the universe, between small and large, between emptiness and the fullness, between silence and sound. I translate contrasts in the density of matter. I find the aesthetic harmony in balancing and playing with contrasts. It is a constant search for interaction with matter, be it clay or colour, which I touch as much as letting myself be touched and guided by matter. A conversation. A dance. This harmony, this balance, this spiritual link to Wholeness, is always present, even in the chaos and in the resistance of material density. This is what I seek to express and transmit and share through my artwork.
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Bujdoso Balazs
My name is Bujdoso Baranyi, Balazs, that’s why I sign as BuBBa.
I was born in Hungary (30.07.1970). Although I always say I’m self-taught it isn’t completely true. I’ve always loved to watch paintings as long as I can remember. And whenever I see a painting I realize techniques, use of colors, etc. So, better to say, I learnt from many many painters. I’m in an eternal love with the so-called “ideal landscape” genre that was popularized by Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and I think mastered by one of my countrymen, Karoly Marko sr. Beside this evergreen genre I always intend to depict everything the most realistic way possible. Briefly I'd say I profess the old values of art, when its first goal was to delight by view- though there's also something personal on my canvas every time. Recently my brushes happened to get close to the doorstep of a kind of hyperrealism and I feel like just having the path found I've always been looking for. In addition to primary school drawing classes, I've never pursued studies related to the fine arts. Yet, since I know my mind, I’ve always loved to draw. I also painted some pictures as a kid and as a teenager, but later creative activity faded into an irregular hobby. Still back in ’95, painting also began to play a bigger role in my life and became a rather regular hobby. I spent 7 years with gouache but since 2002 I work only in oil regardless if it's an original or commissioned painting. Although I also became acquainted with tattooing at the age of 19, for a long time I only did it as a kind of friendly favor. Until finally in 2016, I seemed to settle down. I opened my own tattoo studio in Germany. Quite busy with business, painting was somewhat pushed into the background again, until recently at least. As many people and letters asked me to put painting in focus, finally I kind of retired from the industry, took my brushes again and do tattoos only once or twice a week. It feels the same to grab my brushes as a profession as it was still a hobby. |
Hildegard Cambré
Born in 1968 and raised in Vorselaar, a village in ‘de Kempen’. Her artworks arise from inner emotion and gut feeling. A recurring theme is the circle of life: not always perfect, often bumpy and with interruptions as in real life itself. Recognizable elements are being added as something to hold on that what’s familiar in a rapidly changing world.
Hildegard mostly works with acrylic and mixes her paint with different materials to create depth and structure. |
Patricia Canino
Through her photographic work, she operates across digital and film techniques and uses both photographic and non-photographic methods, working towards an increasingly plastic and poetic approach of the image. With "Locked inside", she oppened up the possibility of transforming the very body of the photographic emulsion with her hands. On a glass surface, the emulsion sculpts, wrinkles, deforms bodies locked up, stuck against a transparent window. What locked down is it about? Probably ours. This invisible confinement against which we bump, we stick and which the other in front of us has the possibility of seeing or pretending not to see. It is precisely this confinement from which we dream of getting rid of, and from which we try to escape for an entire life.
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Rob Chevallier
Second-hand objects combined with photography. My photo objects and installations connect a seemingly carefree past with the present time. A world with problems such as the economic race, overconsumption and climate change. My artworks are both a plea for recycling and sustainability, and a critical look at today's society.
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Guy Cleuren
As an architect-artist, I have been working on architecture as a renewed art form for decades. Architecture as an art medium to discourage rational thinking in architecture and life. This work belongs to my 'Autobiographical Architecture'. This work shows settings of desired perceptions, experiences of usually banal living components. Those living components can be: bath, gazebo, bed,...This work shows 9 different arbours that differ greatly from traditional arbours. It is to show that optimal architectural experiences (mini architectural experiences in the foreground to enhance views of the landscape)go beyond elements we usually use and are offered. Architectural criticism through architecture.
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Anne Collard
I grew up in the 60s, when Pop Art was exploding and taking over the world. The American influence, the colourful adverts, the cinema posters, the comic strip characters, all this was my daily life. These colours and messages left their mark on me, and naturally my work became a reflection of that era.
The Plexiglas boxes add perspective and depth, and allow you to see things from a distance. Each work is a unique, hand-painted piece, sometimes combined with a collage to mix the materials. |
Claudie de Vlieger
In my countless visits as a KLM Purser to vibrant cities like Bangkok, New Delhi, Mexico City, Nairobi and more, I found myself captivated by the kaleidoscope of colors , patterns and combinations as well as the enchanting interiors of Asian, African and South American Cultures.
I couldn’t resist filling my suitcase with an assortment of colorful fabric, paper bags and even local newspapers. I eagerly collected these treasures during my explorations of local markets and quaint shops. To me, a canvas is a challenge like a living space, filling it up with mixed media. I am constantly striving to find harmony between the old and the new; the colors, and the boldness and softness of materials. It’s a delightful dance of black and white, as well as vivid and subtle hues in figurative forms. Drawing inspiration from my mother, who was an accomplished artist herself—a painter, ceramist, and florist—I have been fortunate to inherit her creative spirit and explore various artistic mediums. My artistic journey began at the St. Lucas Art Academy in Kapellen, Belgium, where I spent nine years honing my skills in acrylic painting, drawing, and art history. Later, I proudly opened my own gallery in Antwerp, aptly named Room for Art, which allowed me to showcase my work and connect with fellow art enthusiasts. |
Nicolette de Waart
Sculptor and designer Nicolette de Waart's work is shaped around Connection, Femininity and Beauty. She has built a cohesive body of works across multiple disciplines and materials with a vocabulary deeply rooted in nature and her fascination and curiosity with different cultures and countries she lived in. 'FORCE OF THE SPHERES' visualises our gathered emotions during our lives. Nicolette takes a bold and heartening approach to the conventional wisdom that all people are shaped by their life experiences.
This artwork attempts to reflect a person's life by uncovering our vulnerability, fragility, strength, and passion. Usually, these emotions and memories are invisible, but sculptor Nicolette de Waart has laid them bare in this work. These organic spheres resemble a memory foam, as if it's a protective cushion to help us cope and give us resilience and wisdom in the future. |
Ann Dejonckheere
Ann Dejonckheere is a versatile artist. Over the years, she practised several disciplines with different materials. She used to know how to apply the charcoal technique beautifully in her landscapes. Her series 'Beyond observation' balanced between the figurative and the abstract. But now recently colour has entered her work which has evolved into pure lyrical abstraction.
Using pure pigments, charcoal and Chinese ink, she creates her own original drawings. They are her own designs, very thoughtfully created while drawing herself. With her fingers and hands, she rubs on large-format paper. Through intensity and tonality, she manages to suggest space and depth to a three-dimensional impression. Her work, full of movement and dynamism, captures the imagination. She has her own unique style. Her latest series 'a feeling of fire' shows a lot of movement and dynamism. She invites the viewer to fantasise and enter her pictorial world. The experience can last a long time because her visual language is endlessly varied and captivating. |
Véronique Deschepper
‘As a Belgian painter born on 09/04/1965 in Charleroi, I explored various artistic techniques from an early age. It was at the Charleroi Fine Arts Academy, where I studied the importance of pigments in restoring works of art, that I really developed my mastery of colour and oil painting, favouring this technique for its distinctive texture. My artistic approach is resolutely minimalist, sometimes punctuated by the use of clouds to infuse an ethereal touch, sometimes soft, sometimes vaporous, sometimes transparent, sometimes mystical. Helped and influenced by my travels in the Far North and Africa, the horizon, a recurring element in my creations, has opened the door to my imagination, creating a reassuring sense of stability. Whether sharply defined, delicately suggested or blurred, this horizon embodies the genesis of my work, underlining the singular artistic identity that characterises my works. My current work evolves towards a world situated between abstraction and representation, while exploring the concepts of space and time. The main foundation of my creations is COLOUR. My creations are characterised by their harmonious gradations and fades. In a meticulous artistic approach, I deliberately erase all traces of the brush, also dematerialising the work by using little material, which gives the whole an impression of fluidity. This approach invites the viewer to let themselves be surprised, to dream and to plunge into their own inner world. My canvases are an invitation to deep introspection, a symbolic sharing that goes beyond the simple glance. The gradations become a hymn to escapism of the spirit, provoking a feeling of letting go. In short, my aim is to evoke deep emotions and establish an intimate connection between the viewer and the world of my canvases.’ |
Jo Dierick
With my work, I want to show the metamorphosis of a blind person's diagnosis adhv the skin of ceramic dogs. I have 11 ceramic dogs, each unique and with a different structure, skin and clay. Each dog tells a phase in the processing of a blind person. The first dog reflects the diagnosis ‘going blind’ This is a black dog and represents the black hole the knock of the hammer, the world stands still for a moment. With the second dog, I want to show that his world falls apart into bits and pieces for a moment. The following dogs show the sadness, the prison he is in as a blind person, the anger, the acceptance, the bright spot at the thought of a guide dog and then finally getting a guide dog. Which gives him more freedom, independence, minus the depression, and more contact. The dogs are all handmade, unique and may be touched because the blind and visually impaired also want to experience art. |
Nathalie Duflos
Utterly exhausted and feeling like a complete failure, Nathalie Duflos left her corporate job in 2019, not knowing what the future would bring. Instead of despair and emptiness it brought healing, deep connections and a life of fulfilment – a much better life than she had ever imagined. A big part of this was due to her reconnecting with her creativity, a side of her identity that she had ignored for decades. Since then, she is determined to make up for lost time by soaking up every bit of inspiration, light and colour that comes her way. This has resulted in paintings based on deep feelings, the vulnerability of human connections and the absolute certainty that we are never broken. |
Bram Eliart
At the age of 18, Beliaert began a soul-searching journey, exploring life. Until the age of 22 he traveled between the spiritual landscapes of India and the grounded reality of Belgium. Guided by a fascination for the ancient crafts and art he witnessed , Beliaert sought and found mentorship with Walter De Buck in his hometown, Ghent. For 7 transformative years, he served as an apprentice sculptor until he felt ready to embark on his solo artistic journey. Beliaert’s art explores equilibrium-phisically, with figures on high pedestals, and metaphorically, the dance between humanity and nature. Each sculpture is a silent poem, a frozen moment in time, a meditation on the interplay between creator and creation, inviting reflection on life’s delicate balance.
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Rita Figus
Born in Luxembourg and of Sardinian descent, Rita Figus ventured into the art world in 2005. As a professional therapist, she melds her skills with her passion for painting, infusing her creations with psychological and emotional depth. Guided by her emotions and intuitions, Rita creates vibrant works where abstraction subtly merges with poetry.
She transforms her canvases into reflective spaces, using her art to bridge the visible and the invisible, as well as the conscious and the subconscious. In addition to painting, Rita also practices lyrical singing and various relaxation techniques; activities that enrich her expressive and creative skills. The interaction among the various elements of her activities — singing, relaxation, and painting — enriches the creation of her works, thereby offering a more immersive and contemplative artistic experience. |
Laurent Forton
From an early age Laurent (°1961 living in De Haan, Belgium) developed a keen interest in technology, creativity and entrepreneurship.
After obtaining his engineering degree, he ventured into business with a synthetics processing company where technology and innovation are guiding principles, a daring initiative at the time. Traveling far and wide to finding high-quality techniques is one of Laurent's passions: experiencing is knowledge, knowledge can be harnessed to develop skills, and meanwhile every contact strengthens our connections. Furthermore, Laurent dares to collaborate without compromising his authenticity. Designer, fabricator, assembler,... Laurent is driven by one thing: innovation. Therefore, self-study, experimenting and the manufacturing of sometimes far-fetched ideas is not new to him. Increasingly the need to be creative manifests itself within Laurent. This drive is clearly demonstrated in his latest paintings, installations and objects . Laurent has also been working on the harmony between art and craftsmanship over the past few years through Projects with a big P. Each project is a unique reflection of a goal, with a specific emotional aura or social message in which humour often lurks in the background. They regularly emphasize women's right to existence in a simple but powerful way. His oeuvres come across as rather eclectic, always innovative and often unpredictable. AtelierForton is located near Brugge (Lissewege) in Belgium. |
Fabian Freese
Fabian Freese spent a large part of his childhood in nature, playing with wood and water, which influenced his sense of beauty and aesthetics. When he was a teenager he developed some experience by doing Graffiti.
Today Fabian Freese's work is a exploration of the urban environment. He is searching for materials which are used in the life of nearly everybody in our modern times and then he transforms them into his artworks where the original idea of the use of the item is no longer important, just the form and color of it matters - like in the Everyday Objects Series. Another series which is based on the life in contemporary cities around the world, is the lightpainting series. These are time exposure photographs in which Freese interacts and reflects with the space of the urban environment where the photo is taken, while the exposure goes on. This is normally about 1 - 3 minutes to finish these light compositions. Freese often combines different fields of contemporary art, like painting with photography or painting with objects etc. He tries to go over the borders of the traditional art idea to create his works which are often very forward thinking. Freese studied visual Arts at the Freie Akademie der bildenden Künste (fadbk) in Essen, Germany, and graduated in 2011. Since 2011 his artworks have been exhibited in countries across Europe, America, Asia and Australia. |
Gaka Mira
Gaka Mira (born 1970) grew up near Bruges in Belgium. As a child, he had a passion for drawing and painting on large sheets of paper he found in his father's print shop. The art books that rolled off the press were his inspiration. While he had a career as a psychotherapist, music teacher, coach and expedition leader in Polar regions and mountains, he never stopped studying and creating art. Meanwhile, he developed his artistic and unique voice. In 2022, he decided to dedicate his professional life entirely to his passion for art.
Gaka Mira unites abstract and figurative in amazing, almost 3-dimensional sculptures created with acrylic, pure pigments and epoxy. Innovative and creative working with mediums from industrial applications gives surprising results. He reframes reality through the persona he captures as a street photographer with a 50-year-old point-and-shoot camera into an abstract universe. The glossy quality of his work functions as a mirror in which the viewer reflects himself sees |
Anja Gielen
Anja's adventure began in the fascinating world of fashion and fine arts, where fabric and form come together. There she discovered the power of textures and how they can tell stories without words.
From fashion, she moved on to painting. Anja's brush became her guide and she let her emotions run wild on the canvas. And then there was that deepening in art and religious studies, through which she discovered the deeper layers of meaning in art. In her paintings, you will find no rules, only the freedom of creativity. As a result, each work becomes a journey through thoughts and feelings beyond the visible. For Anja, art is a universal language, breaking the boundaries of disciplines and bringing people together. Currently, she is still exploring and mixing fashion and painting in her creations. All this inspired by the constant dance of life. |
Griet Goeminne
Griet Goeminne is a passionate Belgian artist who puts her heart and soul into every work she creates. Her artworks arise from silence, without having a particular concept in mind beforehand. She is inspired by meditation, letting her feelings
speak while painting. She does this while dancing, singing and sometimes drumming. Movement is central, based on the conviction that everything is in motion. This spontaneous approach results in works that reflect her inner experience and (female) energy, while appealing to the viewer's imagination. With her work, Griet wants to inspire others to create their own story. For Griet, it is important as a woman to have her voice heard in the world. This theme therefore plays a major role in her work. Her creations are expressive, colourful and have deep meaning. From a young age, Griet has had a huge passion for painting. After studying nursing and a journey of discovery around the world, as well as a practice for energetic healing, she picked up the thread in 2018. She works mainly with acrylic paint, pigments and oil paint, occasionally enriched with natural elements such as dried flowers and leaves or grass |
Cosimo Gottschall
Cosimo Gottschall, a passionate plein-air painter, brings a distinctive vibrancy to his works through his close connection to nature. Trusting his instinct and intuition, the autodidact immerses himself in the culture and nature of a country to deepen his engagement with the theme of human and nature. After finding inspiration in the Canary Islands last year, Gottschall spent six months absorbing the unique colors, smells, and sounds of Morocco. His levelheaded approach to painting captures both the external reality and the soul of the place, using various colors, techniques, and mediums. In addition to his paintings, Cosimo's three-dimensional glazed clay sculptures seamlessly integrate with his unique painting style, creating a cosmos that unites external reality and his inner world. Viewers are invited to immerse themselves in Cosimo's artistic vision through his paintings and ceramic art.
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Therese Groeneweg
Therese Groeneweg, born in the Netherlands and now living in France, is a needlefelt artist ( wool
paintings). A few years ago she moved from the Netherlands to France, to a beautiful area in Pays d’Auge, the south of Normandy. The nature there is inspiring her to make her wool paintings. She discovered long time ago the making of art paintings, and changed that to needle felting and fiber art. And that is what she nowadays does, with a lot of passion. Mainly she makes ‘mystic art’ and one of the most important feelings to her art is the making of the eye or an underlaying meaning of the scene, the soul of her art. Her wool paintings are guided by the wool and therefor each painting is unique in texture. She makes her art under the name Needlefelt Addict, and on commission only. |
Caroline Hanny
Caroline Hanny's work questions contemporary animism. With the
the spread of cities and industry, part of the population has cut itself off from its senses, disconnecting itself from a life in symbiosis with nature. The artist takes on the role of shaman, staging herself in performances and videos. She appears and disappears behind veils that flutter in the wind, honoring the passage to the beyond. Her dances-transes evoke offerings to the spirits. She creates her costumes like ceremonial garments, which she deconstructs during rituals to recreate another garment live. The recurrent transformation in her work emphasizes both a process of sacralization and the permanent evolution of vibratory frequencies. Fabric is a powerful element whose metaphysical and symbolic dimensions make it an object of worship for communicating with spirits and marking their presence. His photographs transfigure nature by playing with blur and depth of field. Silhouettes become ghostly, and animals assert their magnetic presence. Metamorphosis intrudes on the creative process, reminiscent of the mischievous spirits who change appearance in certain tales and legends. The artist also uses various mediums as rites of passage to arrive at a final work. She composes mystical altars to invoke supernatural entities, using elements cut from fashion magazines. The ensemble is photographed to establish contact. To celebrate and crystallize the exchange, she paints over the images, creating abstract totemic forms, receptacles for spirits. Could animism be a way of sublimating reality? |
Jolien Janie Henriet
With my designs, I want to make the world a happier place i am often inspired by nature and its colour pallet, the spiritual i often seek through meditation to create visual images.
I have a fascination with people's behaviour, their faces, characteristics and emotions, which I then try to put on canvas in my own colourful, imaginative way. Painting is above all an expression of emotion and processing of feelings and thoughts. Letting your inner child play once in a while that makes everything a little behind in life. |
Thierry Hensgen
Thierry Hensgen decided after thirty years working in various service trades, to make a living from his passion for art turning and sculpture. Following various training courses in this field, he had been practicing these activities in his spare time for over twenty years.
Today, he uses his know-how and artistic creativity to offer you original and astonishing creations that let the light through and attract your hands as well as your eyes. These are designed, conceived and crafted by Thierry from what he considers to be the noblest and most durable of materials: wood. And it's by using the characteristics of this extraordinary medium that he is able to create works that couldn't be made with any other material. He mainly works with local species from sustainably managed forests. But he also likes to work with recycled wood as part of a short circuit approach. |
Philippe Henssens
Originally from Belgium, Philippe Henssens is a contemporary artist who focuses on geometric art and exploits many techniques. He is constantly in search of a harmonious visual effect in his compositions of shapes and lines. His creations are imaginative, constructive and inspired by architecture and urbanization. His creations give free rein to your thoughts and plunge you into questioning. He likes to say that we don’t all have the same reading of the work, but the main thing is to like the story.
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Karen Ketels
Karen Ketels is a Belgian professional photographer, based in the Flemish Ardennes. She is intrigued by natures beauty, by movements, macro-details, soft colors, whites, silence, minimalistic scenes,...
With her work she wants to make the unseen visible, to evoke silence, and create minimalistic images with an extra touch of beauty. |
Caroline Knockaert
Artist Caroline Knockaert started drawing at an early age. She grew up in an artist family where both mother and grandfather were highly skilled with different art disciplines and methodologies. So Caroline started studying at the Art Academy where she specialised mainly in oil painting. Here, she uses preparatory material and worked mainly by image. The themes she deals with are mainly intuitive, emotional and related to her life experiences during the various stages of her life.
Her works can be recognised by the bright, warm colour combinations with black lines, contemporary suggestive expressionism. After many years of painting in oils, the artist Caroline Knockaert changes course. She exchanges her safe canvases for experimenting with multimedia materials. She leaves her studio and starts documenting daily scenes in her close environment. The drawings show the moment itself, tinged by her artist's gaze and embraced with humour. The snapshot calls for a fleeting medium where she quickly colours different kinds of playful lines and areas that result in colourful cheerful marker drawings. As the markers are used, the colour runs or fades. Even the old markers with almost no ink left in them give her works beautiful surprising results, always creating exciting new effects. ‘I've always had a thing for lines, the black marker actually used for advertising! I would give this one a try, do like novelties and challenges. The direct stroke visible and full of colour allowed me to draw quickly and directly on paper, indoors and outdoors, on the train, in the waiting room or waiting for the bus. The boldness of the direct stroke energises me.... What if I put wrong? Nay I look carefully and immediately put the line right too and that's how a drawing emerges.’ |
Olivier Lamboray
Belgian surrealist painter Olivier Lamboray was born in Ixelles in 1968.
Internationally renowned and winner of several awards, he has exhibited all over the world. He currently lives in Germany after spending some twenty years in Indonesia. Nourished by this place, his paintings bring Belgian surrealism back to life in his own way: blue, dreamy, poetic, positive, symbolic and intoxicating. Often compared to Magritte and Delvaux, his work reflects the same themes and inspiration love and celebration of the beauty of our country and its architecture. With a classical education, he studied mathematics at the U.L.B. and then moved into advertising design, which he soon abandoned because he was bothered by the commercial aspect of the profession. He began painting in 1992 and made it his raison d'être. Far from being in vain, his scientific studies have given him a rigorous, calculated and precise approach. In his work, we find a meticulous rendering of detail, a perfection of light and shadow so dear to the great Belgian surrealists, an allegory of mystery and atmosphere, a journey that takes us into a world where dreams enchant and the heart blossoms. "Painting is my journey" is a perfect way to describe him. Surrealism is at the heart of Belgian culture, and from an early age he has been fascinated by the magical feeling of the surrealist dream. In his work, we find elements that are dear to our country: trams, stations, the shiny cobblestones of Brussels, art nouveau, Horta façades, all elements that highlight our cultural and architectural heritage. More recently, he exhibited at the Venice Art Biennale (2022), invited by the European Cultural Center, and a retrospective of his work is currently on show at the Musée d'Art de Tours in France, in the prestigious Hôtel Goüin, with over 60 paintings. |
Jean-Pierre Letienne
Jean-Pierre Letienne has been working for about 30 years on everything related to his 2 passions which are tattooing and art.
His mediums are very broad ranging from collages, acrylics, watercolour, pastels, coffee and much more. About five years ago, he decided to exchange his permanent residence for a travelling existence. He went completely off-grid! Not an obvious choice but a very conscious and considered one! A leap to freedom, away from the comfort zone. A leap into the unknown that required him to do everything himself and often alone, to be creative, but above all to grow into a different form of consciousness. In this way, he largely detached himself from the 'rules society' and thus acquired, his own freedom. A necessity to be able to do what he wants, make art with a neutral view on people and society. Art born from an ever-active brain, fed by his daily experiences and responsibilities. |
Dinah Letteboer
In daily life, Dinah is responsible for realizing large city area developments as a program manager. Her passion for art and architecture, started during her studies in Art History, has always stayed with her. In addition to her work, she follows master classes in oil painting, based on the painting techniques of the old masters. She often spends her free time in art museums for extra inspiration. The idea of sharing her love of colours led to the creation of DNH Artful Living, the company she started with her partner Edo, in 2021.
For as long as she can remember, colours have always played a central role in Dinah's life. Coloursallow her to express her emotions. That makes her approach personal, pure and spontaneous. The way she works with colours is highly dependent on a first reaction to a certain colour or combinations of colours. The only criterion she uses is whether a certain colour makes her heart beat faster and which emotions are strengthened by it. |
Daniel Mac Lloyd
Self-taught street artist Daniel Mac Lloyd’s (1995, Luxembourg) artistic career started with his first exhibition in 2009 showing synergies of abstraction, pop art collage, and graffiti elements. Influenced by Graffiti, and graphic design, and inspired by the magic of details found in the streets, his style found its way to the kind of urban contemporary art that it is right now. A symbiosis of Graffiti, watercolor, and abstract forms, often in combination with bird or sea creature motives in all dimensions. Not only did Daniel win the Street Art Award Benelux2018 for best newcomer, but together with Raphael Gindt, he also created his own Urban Art Gallery and creative space in Esch-sur-Alzette.
Recently Daniel MAC LLOYD has focused a lot on experimentation with new materials and the deconstruction/manipulation of these materials. The breakdown of shapes and colors in his previous works also begins to become more visible in the physical substance of the works. After playing with the idea of a wooden collage last year, this year he started working on plasterboard, and cardboard, which he manipulates. This seems to be a route that he can develop even further in the future and find new ways to materialize his visual deconstruction. |
Armelle Maguer
Alexander Martijn
My paintings depict an explosion of colours which personifies the triumph I’ve achieved of my battle against depression and suicidal thoughts. Colours have nourished my soul, guided me
out of a dark and unpromised world. I’ve been painting since my childhood and picked it seriously up back again in 2018. Through my paintings I aim to bring a smile to the faces of everybody who admires them. Transmitting a message of happiness and hope, making each one of us aware that there is always sunshine after the rain. And that the sunshine does not depend on any other factor to shine, other than yourself. Being aware of your inner strength, valuing and appreciating yourself each day more and love yourself in every aspect. It is not the shoes you wear, but the steps you make! Most of my paintings are 90x120 cm on canvas. I always treat my canvasses with extra two layers of gesso, so the colours do stand out more and it adds extra strength to the canvas. I use acryl paint colours. I do combine matt and glossy colours on my paintings. I always finish up with a light matt varnish coat. I define my paintings as figurative modern art. |
Agnès Monnet
Agnès Monnet expresses the intimacy of characters through fragmented images that question visual perception. Gestalt theory plays an important role in his approach, underlining the importance of global perception and the resolution of cognitive enigmas. Character recognition is achieved by reading contours. In the event of fragmentation, the brain is disorientated. This intrigue pushes it to solve the enigma by completing the missing information in the image by accommodating internal references or memories. In this digital world where profile photos have become the reflets of identity, where facial recognition is emerging, deep human nature, made up of emotions shown or hidden, must not be forgotten. Intimacy, the 'inside', remains the only preserved 'world' today, the true source of humanity.
The fragmented nature of her work is a reminder of the complexity of an individuality that shows only an infime part of its identity. She explores its facets, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in a complex and personal reading of each character. Each work questions the boundary between reality and illusion, between the intimate and the revealed, between the imagined and the concrete. They are an invitation to explore the twists and turns of the viewer's perception. Fragmentation defie our vision of reality and shows how our personal experiences influence our interpretation of things. |
Angelo Moyano
Angelo Moyano born in Spain, raised in the Netherlands.
He developed his talent for design during his career in the custom motorcycle industry. To develop and explore his talent, however, he needs more freedom and he finds it in sculpting: almost anything goes and almost anything goes. There is room for his creativity and sculpting allows him to think and create freely. Attracted by its purity, surprised by its colors and shapes and driven by curiosity about its character, Angelo finds natural stone the ideal material to sculpt. Intense passion and inner strength make him want to merge organic forms with the roughness of the stone to create a sculpture. It is a process of supreme concentration: observing, stepping back and contemplating; over and over again. Sculpting for Angelo means inner enrichment. His greatest inspiration is "the woman"; her character, sensuality, curves and movements. Love, respect and admiration inspire Angelo to sculpt her from stone. A sculpture is perfect when it unites its soul with the soul of the model and the stone. |
Jana Mullër
The freelance artist Martha Hugo-Mill works exclusively in series. Figurative and abstract painting are equally important in her work. Femininity is a central theme in her figurative work. The viewer is presented with an intense view of the complexity of emotions, which leaves room for personal interpretation. The discourse in her graphic-abstract work, on the other hand, juxtaposes forms and color surfaces that are composed with the utmost precision.
As one of 35 artists, she was invited to the Festival Of Lights Berlin in 2022 with the installation "Urban Nature". At this event, important Berlin landmarks such as the "Brandenburger Tor", "Berlin Fernsehturm" and "Schloss Bellevue" are staged every year. In a current group exhibition at the Holger John Gallery in Dresden, she is represented with an old-masterly large-format oil painting based on a photograph by the artist Jürgen Teller of the fashion icon Dame Vivienne Westwood and her husband Andreas Kronthaler, as well as two free figurative works. Artists such as Marina Abramovic, Jiyun Cheon, Katharina Arndt, Hanne Darboven, Jenny Holzer, Cornela Schleime and Miriam Vlaming are presented in the exhibition "Madonnen & Medusen". Martha Hugo-Mill began her artistic career by studying fashion design in Berlin. In the following years, she expanded her skills as a graphic designer in a renowned advertising agency. She was able to deepen her painting and graphic design skills by studying at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, where she graduated with a diploma in theater painting (the most famous representative is the international artist Gerhardt Richter). Before she decided to work as a freelance artist, she worked for a long time for theaters, film projects, museums and independent restorers. You can look forward to 4 varied days of her figurative and graphic works at the Grand Casino. |
Marc Noël
Marc Noël's Quantum Painting is a free and unrestricted expressive art that he created some time ago. The reason why he created this form of painting is to offer for those who desire it - through a brush, paint, and a canvas - the crystallization of "quantum" energy that becomes visible on a canvas.
The Quantum Paintings he creates also always consist of 2 aspects, and even 3 aspects : The first aspect is that they offer the possibility for the human beings to look at them and admire them in daylight through their eyes.The second aspect is that these same paintings, once they welcome uv light, show themselves from a completely different angle and invite the viewer to immerse themselves in a magical universe. The third aspect is that as soon as you turn off the lights, even the uv light, the canvas always remains visible for a few hours, illuminated in total darkness. |
Guy Obijn
Because Guy Obijn has been photographing architecture for more than 30 years, it was a challenge for him to create works of art with models. He radiates optical illusions on naked bodies through different projectors. He then prints the images with a special process on a brushed aluminum plate. The advantage over a normal photo print is that the pictures cannot decay over time. Through the aluminum, the optical illusions are enhanced by the light play of the metal with the surroundings.
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Bart Persoons
Bart Persoons -born in Leuven, 1967 - is known as an artist for his unique signature of thousands of tiny coloured dashes in his oil paintings.
His abstract works reflect the complexity and diversity of human identity, with each stripe symbolising a unique individual within the masses. People give colour to life and the artist emphasises this cheerfulness in his work. The simplicity in his work, the repetitive action, the clear structure make people experience a positive, nice feeling when they look at the artist's colourful work. |
Wolfgang Petsch
Wolfgang Petsch, as a graphic design student, created a transformative intertwined ready-made subject that pays homage to Duchamp's most notorious piece. This parallel approach showcases their artistic claim of having a clear vision and distinct signature.
The humble mouse trap, a simple and functional device designed to catch rodents, is not something that one would typically associate with art or key insights and to a new innate female body. This is exactly what happened with the mouse trap in the genius creative step out of the air, as it underwent a metamorphosis and became a symbol of feminine abstract icons and innate beauty in the source of art exemplifying the power of artistic interpretation and re-contextualization. It can be a highly subjective and personal experience, allowing for diverse interpretations and connections with the artwork. Artists can take everyday objects, subjects, concepts, or performances and give them new meaning through their creative expression. In this case, the artist has taken the mouse trap and re-imagined it as a representation of feminine tangible abstract and beauty, highlighting and illuminating the transformative nature of art. This demonstrates how art can challenge our perceptions and invite us to see women in new and unexpected ways. |
Simone Pick
In my work I deal with the topic of incisions and their effects - from my point of view a deeply human topic, individually but also socially.
What are the effects of incisions? What associations do they create in my works: Injury or opening, compression or free space, solidification or movement, change and further development? The basis of the sculptures is always a supposedly "simple" form such as plates and blocks, which are opened up into complexity through incisions and, in some cases, subsequent transformation. They reveal a new form that already lies within them. Depending on the material and its possibilities to take up and implement the theme, a range of sculptures and sculptures emerges that develop a strong change of form to works in which the focus is entirely on the cut. I currently work with bronze, steel, clay, paper and wood. |
Olya Ranguelova
Olya Ranguelova is a French painter and pastellist, native of Bulgaria. After having lived in the capitals of numerous countries during her childhood and adult life, she found her homeland in the North of France, on the Opal coast.
She is inspired by the vast open spaces and the close intertwining between farmland and seascape, under the soft light of the Franch Northern coast. Her artworks depict the impact this peculiar scenery has on people and how they interact in this unusual environment. One of her recurrent themes is also the portrayal of the peacefulness that emerges from human relationships, between a mother and a child, close friends or mere walkers enjoying the natural sites. The result of her pastel artwork and paintings are intimate family scenes that take place in large open landscapes. Even if the scenes depict individuals portrayed from a distance, Olya Ranguelova is sharing with the viewer of the artwork moments that these anonymous people may cherish. Other artworks are mostly focusing on transcripting the nature and landscapes of the Opal coast and the painter's relation with them |
Henny Salismans
Henny Salimans draws with chalk in a way like painting horses on canvas. She combines expressive lines with surfaces in subtle range of colouring.
On 3, 4, 5 or more panels the theme ‘Horses’ has been abstracted. On these so called polyptychs ‘roll’ horsebacks over the panels endlessly repeated as a never ending motion of waves. |
Saloua Sarhiri
Traveling through her paintings, where colors and shapes feed her imagination.
Saloua is passionate about the flexibility of this form of visual communication. Textured and colored surfaces, expressive and fine works at the same time. Her brushes dance with the music and the surrounding atmosphere in her studio. Music guides her movements and her imagination dictates colors. She likes playing with the contrast between matte and glossy as well as with the transparency of colors. As a child, Saloua spent a lot of time in her mother’s studio, painter by passion. Welcome to her happy world. |
Lia Scheipers
Lia Scheipers has always created things, art education in Antwerp was not the beginning. Long before her secondary school career, her parents were invariably told that she was a high-flyer in one thing and that was creative subjects, drawing especially. For her creative father - who also drew himself -there was only one logical step .... to pursue art education. She was 11 when she first took the bus to Antwerp to develop her talents.
On canvas, she provokes, mainly by using a lot of black, sometimes adding a small colourful touch. She can also surprise right away with a monochrome in colour. She uses tight lines but also produces soft and flowing movements through the medium, especially acrylic and ink. The many layers and their transparency do not necessarily hide the linen’s texture. |
Ivan Sizonenko
How to render music pictorial or painting musical?
A music of rhythms and notes, a painting of shapes and colors. The golden ratio is part of what human beings experience as "being in proportion", as it is naturally inscribed in their environment, geometric harmony, balance of the internal forces of living beings. In this way, serial paintings are the result of pictorial, geometric and arithmetical rules based on the golden ratio, and color combinations or permutations based on the Fibonacci sequence. They come under the heading of concrete art, Konstructiv Kunst. Ivan Sizonenko has been painting since September 1994, driven by the need to represent balance, harmony and rhythm, under the influence of synesthetic images that appear to him when listening to music. Born in Paris on September 23, 1960, he has lived in Geneva since December 1969. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1983 with a degree in engineering-physics, and from the University of Geneva in 1993 with a degree in science history and philosophy. |
Ralph Spegelaere
Ralph S.: "Painting as soon as I wake up at night is a bit like chasing my dreams. Brushes in hand, I'm in continuous mediation. "
Ralph mainly works in oils, paints every night, between waking and sleeping, a way of letting go and letting his emotions express themselves fully on canvas. The evolution of the world, society, the feminine condition..., the painter always combines painting and philosophy, accompanying the viewer on the path of a reflection as free as it is intimate and profound. Ralph S. insists on this freedom, this absence of judgment, this pure and generous invitation to reflect and feel. He has won several awards in Italy, most recently the MEDUSA prize in Lecce, and over the last 3 years has produced more than 200 canvases! His colors are vivid and pure, his strokes poetic. These works are always somewhere between reality and fiction, between figuration and abstraction." |
Sofia Speybrouck
My work is a search for the beauty that can be found all around us. It is a search in which I am guided by my feelings, surroundings and nature. I use this inspiration to depict the subject in its purest essence and full strength, using abstract forms and lines. Each piece is a play with the balance between positive and negative space. It is a thoughtful and strongly personal style with which I translate a wide variety of subjects into ceramics, bronze and canvas.
Sofia Speybrouck (1970) studied Fine Arts with a specialisation in Ceramics at the Hogeschool Sint-Maria Instituut (Antwerp) and at the Provinciaal Hoger Instituut voor Kunstonderwijs (Hasselt). Her studio can be visited throughout the year by appointment. |
Marlène Stevers
For Marlène Stevers, painting is a process in which she can totally forget herself and can be purely concerned with creating the painting. Through this working method, the painting retains the energy with which it was created, passion plus the conviction.
A passionate and skilled artist, Marlène has devoted herself to ancient painting techniques. So, she uses this complex and time-consuming way of painting in her contemporary theme, "plastic waste". A saying of hers is "Art is to depict current themes in a graceful manner". The painting “A day at the beach" shows, among other things, the waste that is often left behind after a day at the beach and what plastic is doing to our seas. The issues of the present time are colourfully and captivatingly depicted for the viewer in these works. |
Mieke Tambuyzer
'After years of painting with acrylic and India ink, I have started drawing with a 3D pen for the past eight years.
This medium allows me to work both two- and three-dimensionally. The vibrations, fine lines and layering give my work the poetic expression I strive for. I work both abstract and figurative. The safe nest that is so important for everyone keeps me busy. The connectedness versus the indifference.' |
Eva Timmermans
Eva Timmermans a talented artist, has distinguished herself in recent years by her unique contribution to the world of abstract art. In an artistic context where creativity and expression are central, Eva manages to create an impressive synergy of form, color and emotion with her works.
Abstract art, as a movement, offers artists like Eva Timmermans the freedom to step outside the traditional boundaries of realism. Eva's creations reflect a fundamental exploration of her inner world, often using non-figurative elements to capture her emotional experiences and thoughts. |
Geneviève Toye
Born in Mouscron in 1965, I grew up in Boechout near Antwerp, seemingly fertile ground for artists .Ireaped more fruits of artistic inspiration at the academy in Borsbeek, Lier the Henry Van de Velde Institute also called "the academy of Antwerp" later on. Thereupon, pencils, drawing board and brushes were traded in for 25 years of diligent work in the financial and consulting world, alongside a busy schedule as a young and not-so-young mother to eventually guide 4 children into adulthood.
As they gradually discovered their own path, both school and the easel beckoned. School took precedence: I graduated as a socio-economic anthropologist in 2011. Time to bring out the brushes, as the other boxes had been ticked off. In 2013, I timidly started painting again. It brought peace in a, at the time, difficult period of illness and financial worries. The brushes became my escape route to some breathing space during the last 10 tough years of permanent pain and other hardships. The flowers have an anointing effect. The abstract works are an expression of the colour of the moment. I wish you a sunny, fascinating journey along my story, my chunks of hope and small windows to joy and a peaceful life. “ |
Bernadette van Baarsen
Bernadette van Baarsen was born and raised in Amsterdam. From an early age she made objects, first in wood that she found at the beach, later in Plexiglas. After an eventful life as a punk singer and then an academic career, she returned to the artistic path and started painting. In Provence, Bernadette discovered the power of form and colour. She became animated by the landscape in which both raw nature and man-made geometries contrast and enhance each other. Each painting is a search for the unknown balance within which a multitude of colours and the overwhelming sun are inevitably truths.
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Mieke Van Cauter
Mieke Van Cauter is a mixed media artist, working with different materials and textures. Onemoment as a storyteller from her own experience or inspired by what is happening in theworld. The other moment it is a game with colours and she seeks abstraction. She uses acrylic, charcoal and oil pens.
She took courses at Kara Bullock Art School, Olga Furman Art School, Patti Mollica, Julie Schumer, Robert Kelley, among others. In 2016, her enthusiastic freedom to paint received a firm dent due to a medical accident. Thisleft her unable to do anything with her right hand and arm overnight. However, she did not sit back and started her rehabilitation a few months later. Her ultimate goal of her rehabilitation programme was: "To be able to live independently again as well as draw & paint." Through a lot of perseverance and a specific programme of daily exercises, she was able to achieve this. Painting and drawing changed. The stiffness in her hand gradually disappeared, making dailypainting at certain times a virtue and at the same time a necessity. Besides, it also turned out to be the ideal distraction against the pain. The past few years were not an evident course and at the same time it bestowed her with a form of wealth. On this, she says the following: "Painting became my greatest tool and makesme happy. I like to inspire people" |
Rony Van den Block
Rony Van den Block (°Meise 1963) moved to Antwerp after his studies at the Sint-Lukasinstituut in Brussels. He built up a fine career as an independent graphic designer and continued to draw and paint passionately. Through a series of coincidences, his family name became his trademark. With his blocks he imposes an almost absurd restriction on himself in order to address the theme of liberation.
Even though he only came out with his artworks later, the exhibitions under the name [unblocked] are progressing very fast. His work explores the boundaries between abstract and figurative. In addition to the blocks, the purity of color, matter and the touch of humor are very typical. His work is multi-layered according to the distance of observation. A refreshingly new artist with the skills of an old master. |
Dennis Van den Bossche
The diverse oeuvre of Dennis Van den Bossche includes both paintings,bronze and graphics in which the universal prevails over the anecdotal.
The paintings are made using both modern and old techniques (glazing). The bronze sculptures are mostly made according to the lost wax technique whereby each sculpture is unique. |
Tosca Van den Braak
‘As an autonomous artist, I am always looking for new ways to shape my ideas. I enjoy working with different materials and I am constantly exploring their possibilities. Every concept I come up with requires specific materials and techniques. Also, the properties of a material lead to new ideas and discoveries, which enriches my creative process.
In my artworks, you will find a constant thread: order in chaos. I am fascinated by the ambivalence of life and the way people interact with the world, each other and themselves. My work reflects my personal view on these topics. I try to understand and visualise the complexity of the world around us, and I invite viewers to look at their own actions and surroundings with fresh eyes. I hope my work contributes to a deeper reflection on our place in the world and our ability to bring about positive change.’ |
Carie van der Kloot
Carie van der kloot is an artist from Wortel. She has been working with natural products for more than 20 years. Nature is her source of inspiration. She draws natural living into her daily life and soon got a little closer to nature as a result. She went so far in this that she now stands next to nature. Little did she know that you can get that far. She does not paint to show what she can do but she paints to discover. She has written several books on how natural living makes you look at life from a different angle/perspective.
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Kaat Van der Marliere
Jacqueline van der Plaat
Jacqueline van der Plaat was born in Amsterdam in 1959.
After studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, over the years, she developed her own style. With the female body as the main subject for her paintings, she tries to portray the power of women in a gentle way. Her works usually start with a mix of acrylic paint and collage of textile and paper, from which female figures gradually emerge. This way of working, creates an interesting and varied image to look at. Sometimes she makes a foray into flowers or animals, which she also depicts in a colourful and decorative way. |
Roman Van Gelder
In my work I am inspired by the beauty of nature, animals, flowers, landscapes and the changing light throughout the day. The seemingly random way of how flower petals fold around each other. How sun rays burst through a thick layer of clouds after a long rainy day. The endlessly different color tones that appear during a beautiful sun set. An early spring morning, mist covering the landscape as a thick blanket, making houses and trees barely visible due to the thick atmosphere. Or a blackbird singing on a branch in my garden. My connection with nature is my life force and makes me happy. Creating everlasting memories in paint to make the viewer aware of how beautiful and precious our world is.
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Haggith van Hees
Haggith’s work is distinguished by her ability to integrate emotional depth and story into herpaintings. Her palette is infused with vibrant colors that evoke emotions and moods, and thecompositions often tell a story that invites the viewer to introspection. Through her art shetries to make a connection between the viewer and the essence of her own experiences and feelings.
Haggith’s paintings are not only visual masterpieces, but also a reflection of her deep involvement with the world around her. She continues to evolve as an artist, constantly looking for new sources of inspiration and challenges to push her creative boundaries. Haggith’s journey, which started as a child admiring art, has grown into an impressive artistic journey that stimulates the senses and fuels the imagination. |
Rudie van Holderbeke
Rudie Van Holderbeke (°1953 Belgium) is a part-time student in the DKO first specialisation year in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, under the guidance of two young internationally active painters: Nils Verkaeren and Pieter Jennes.
His oil paintings are about people in motion and their body language, not surprising when you know that his entire professional career was dominated by physical training and sports. For his personal style, he draws inspiration from the work of contemporary painters like Mark Tennant, Alex Kanevsky, Edwige Fouvry and Peter Doig, as well as colourists like Matisse, Munch and Gauguin. Although still in training, he has already been able to show his work in two exhibitions: September 2023, selected for the 'Nalatenschap Bart D'Eyckermans' at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. December 2023, first solo exhibition at gallery CULT Antwerp. |
Benedicte Vandewattyne
Benedicte is an authentic Belgian artist with a strong temperament that gives her works a sincere, enchanting, brilliant and delicate soul (A.I.C.A Hugo Brutin). In her painting, she seeks a balance between abstract and realism to convey different realities to the viewer. Everyone's own interpretation. Her works are characterised by the use of an expressive and high-contrast colour palette which, combined with geometric shapes, gives the painting cubist effects. Notable here is the frequent use of the triangle. This distorts reality by its pronounced contrast with the context of the work. As if a puzzle piece is taken away, as if she pushes the 'STOP' button and wants to freeze and capture a certain special moment in life. Her technique mixes marker and oil on canvas which gives structure and strength to her works.
She is a perfectionist, never satisfied, constantly pushing her limits and cannot resist expanding them. This gives her the strength to keep surpassing herself, never dwelling on one theme and always looking for new horizons and new energy. Benedicte has been painting since early childhood. For her, it is the most natural way to express herself, to escape. She studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and graduates from the Saint Lucas Institute in Tournai. |
Tom Vanhauwaert
The Belgian artist Tom Vanhauwaert was attracted to art sincechildhood, gaining his first recognitions in 2015. Before that, he worked as a carpenter.
Tom through his minimalist language grants us a subjective view of life, of existence and the deep characterizing the human being. This depth is quite complex and finds a representation rationalized, articulate, orderly but lively with bright and strong colors, almost like pop art. The purpose of these works is to “spread the message”, to share emotions, participate to life, the life that Tom Vanhauwaert defines as a highspeed train, a journey rich with experiences. The will to use the minimalist language to express life complexity springs from the intention to show the beauty and the joy that can be found in life through the simple and humble things that abound in it, but usually go unnoticed. |
Saskia Verguts
Saskia Verguts took courses at St. Lucas Gent, PXL Hasselt Somato-psychopedagogy and later model and drawing art at the Art Academy in Geel. Her work mainly consists of the already well-known' Humbolds®', since 2020 also registered in Europe.
Humbolds, brave gentle spirits always with infinite understanding for each other. ' Humble', with a touch of 'Bold' (sprightly enthusiasm). Created from water and sand, charcoal and fire. Humbolds in a serene enclosed group, surrounded by raised cement textured sections in a pearly haze. The work previously hung at the Halle in Geel and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. (KMSKA) |
Gregory Verheecke
Gregory Verheecke captures the energy of the world. Often working with bright colours, lines and textures, he strips down his mental process to attain a pure state of creation with no interference of thoughts. Trying to navigate between this process of 'thinking-no-thinking', the same figuratives appear unconsciously, often animals, flowers and trees... . This pure state of innocence is not easy to attain and has a relationship with meditation techniques, where mental processes are stripped off, layer by layer, to attain a higher state of consciousness. He is looking for his inner child to express himself, as children's drawings often come straight from the heart. His colourful compositions are an ode to the joy of the present moment, a grateful reminder of life itself.
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Claudia Vialaret
Claudia Vialaret usually draws her inspiration from art history and literature. She takes photographs (live models, landscapes, etc.) that she prints and then transforms to distance them from banal reality. She handles photo paper by crumpling it,
folding it, tearing it and then she explores all its alternative visual possibilities to breathe new life into the images. The paper, with its folds, its hollows and its volumes, reveals hidden dimensions and transforms the original image. Finally, she created a final composition on the computer, guided by the original inspiration from art history.hystory, as if she were weaving a tapestry. She presents two series here: Origins and Times of Troubles - Origins 2017 -2020: Timeless stories, heroic tales or Greek mythology have built our cultures. our cultures. Adonis, Ophelia, Daphne populate our collective unconscious, and each of these allegories takes us back to the origins of our dreams. She mixed these allegories with lush nature to evoke these lost times, in our distant origins, when man merged with nature. The time when the tree, the earth and the sky were his only horizon. This is our cultural and natural origin.- Times of Trouble 2022-2024: Three years ago, she began to explore a new medium and printed her photographs on silk. Inspired by the disorders of nature and global warming, I put in motion the landscape pictures taken during my travels. The pleating of this fluid and shiny fabric, forming swirls and reflections, made me dream of strange and threatening landscapes. The clouds mingle with the sparkles of thesilk, the trees move, the horizon lines twist with the contortions of the fabric.These landscapes oscillate between reality and fiction, suggesting a troubled future. |
Sonja Vishnudart
Sonja VishnudArt's story is as particular as her bronze sculptures, which combine introverted intimacy with extroverted, almost baroque exuberance. Sonja was born in Suriname, lived and worked in the Netherlands, Belgium, Monaco and Switzerland. She participated in exhibitions in Monaco, Montreux, Brussels, Breda, Zurich, Venice and Paris. Her concept for the Memorial in Brussels in honour of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Belgium was selected for the final round. She is currently working in her studios in Belgium and Switzerland. Sonja: 'My work depicts universal feelings, people recognise themselves in it.'
People who see her work mirror their own experiences in her images. That provides insight into their own story. This recognition of the universal gives peace, openness and freedom. Sonja VishnudArt is self-taught, yet she took private lessons for four years from Charles Vergouwen (professor of the St Joost Art Academy in Breda) during his retirement period. She learned to work with different materials such as clay, the lost wax, plaster and plasticine. Every step is in her power until the final process, patination! Sonja works from her feelings, easily straying from her drawing or model which can be wonderfully surprising. |
Molly Winckelmans
Atelier/Gallery Molly's Artmove is the home of Belgian-Zimbabwean artist Molly 'Maureen Phiri'Winckelmans.
Molly started her career 36 years ago in Harare, Zimbabwe where she achieved awards of excellence. 9-time award-winning artist and two of her artworks in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare A resident of Bornem for a good 25 Years, where she founded Molly's Artmove Gallery from her living room 13 years ago. Molly paints women, strong women, mothers. Always in her signature colourful style, very contemporary and above all unique. As a result, she always catches the eye and is the maverick of contemporary Zimbabwean painting. A unique opportunity to get acquainted with Molly's work can be had during these days. |