Description
I’d like to present my latest silkscreens and/or some monotypes. My work is centered on my immediate environment. Rather than picturesque landscapes, I’m drawn to nearby nature: weeds between two cobblestones, the silhouette of a tree in front of a building. Rather than represent it figuratively, I prefer to distance myself from reality and express the emotion it arouses in me. The eye, like a lens, scans the environment and settles on the detail that catches its eye. Then all you have to do is leave your hand free to give free rein to your unconscious. The landscape becomes a mere pretext, and the drawing says more about the artist than the model. My aesthetic positioning is rooted in the great masters of chiaroscuro, Rembrandt, La Tour and Caravaggio. My questions are: how to bring light out of the depths of dark colors, and how to use the subtleties of color to express an emotion, a sensation.
Biography
Artistic Training
Since 2013: Training in engraving, lithography, and screen printing at RHok Academie, Brussels
2005-2007: Etterbeek Art Academy, Brussels
2000-2006: Ixelles Art School, Brussels
1996-2000: Boitsfort Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels
1994: Photography course at Ateliers de la rue Voot, Brussels Numerous courses at the Libramont Summer Academy, Brussels
Exhibitions
2021: Parcours d’artistes Ixelles
2020: Maison Lismonde, “Echappées” exhibition
2019: Centre Culturel du Blanc, 36300, Le Blanc, France
2017: Group exhibition at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, as part of the Ukiyo-we exhibition.
2011: Sentier des Arts, Gembloux, Belgium
2010: Tour et Taxis, Brussels
2010: Parcours d’artiste, Saint Gilles, Belgium
2009: Centre Culturel du Blanc, 36300, Le Blanc, France 2008: Parcours d’artiste de Saint Gilles
2000-2013: Private exhibitions.
Works
