Description
In my studio, I mainly work with acrylics, pigments, and ink on canvas or paper. Large formats are simultaneously nurtured by smaller sketches, allowing the pictorial gesture to be freed. These are not proofs but snapshots that testify to the ongoing process. Embedded in the abstract expressionist movement, my paintings do not start from a predefined subject but from a perceived and memorized image, a lived emotion, or an inner impulse. I prepare my colors and brushes to then, depending on the feeling, either attack or caress the white surface, letting my hand guide the tool and follow its path. One color, one line calls for another. A composition is born, emerging from the depths of the intimate. The painting becomes what I expected; it is the result of an introspective journey, sometimes instantaneous, sometimes only coming to fruition after a slow gestation.
Biography
The desire to paint and draw has existed since childhood. After my studies in art history and archaeology, I spent long periods in Greece and Italy, countries that shaped my imagination. In addition to numerous workshops, I furthered my training at the Boitsfort Academy, mainly in the studio of the painter Zhu Tianmeng, experimenting with abstract gestural approaches. I have continued this expressionist approach in my studio in Ixelles for over fifteen years, feeding my artistic vision with numerous on-the-spot sketches in ink or watercolor, as well as photographs. These images or landscapes form an emotional foundation that I later translate in my own way onto canvas or paper. I have participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and am featured in Michel Van Lierde’s book, Filiations de l’expressionnisme abstrait belge, Asmodée Edern éd., 2024, p.192.
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