Description
After practicing visual arts with a teacher who embraced positive aesthetics, I abandoned this practice for a long time. However, my encounter in 2010 with the painter Isabelle Ravet was decisive. At her Atelier Isara, I acquired trompe-l’œil techniques. Since 2013, I have been creating my own compositions, which I photograph and then reproduce by transforming them. I have increasingly focused on hyperrealism, particularly in vanitas compositions in the style of the Spanish Renaissance. What interests me most initially is what I want to convey through a series of symbols. It is the narrative that underlies the composition, but it is also the storytelling. What my paintings evoke in each person, what each person can construct from my paintings. Far from being images of death, as is sometimes believed, vanitas for me are reminders of the principles of humility, tolerance, equality, and hope in life.
Biography
I have always loved visual arts, but the twists of life made me forget this project, especially since, as the daughter of a fairly well-known writer and painter in our region (Charleroi), I didn’t want to follow in his footsteps! Then, the twists of fate led me to Atelier Isara. Under the name Amélie Haut, AmHo, I have participated in several group exhibitions since 2015, such as in February 2022 (Interiors, Exteriors) with Dominique Jacqumart (Jado), in June 2023 (Four Looks) with painters Jado and Muriel Jongen and sculptor Patricia Debaerdemacker, and very recently (April 2024) at the Cabinet of Curiosities at the Book Fair (with artists from Atelier Isara). I have participated in various salons in Belgium (the different SAC Artistic Salons in Charleroi, Tournai, etc.), in artist trails (especially the We Art XL trail), and in two solo exhibitions, the last of which was in January 2019, under the title Signs of Life.
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