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I AM a figure painter

I was born the youngest of eight children to a Flemish labor family in 1962 near Kortrijk in Belgium.
It is in that culture that I grew up.
I live in France, in Les Cévennes a mountainous region in the south of France, since 1994.

More than anything, I want to think that as an artist my process of development is a constant and ongoing one.
I’m a borrower and inevitably influenced by great art.
I also learn by meeting other artists and observing their work.
I want to convey a personal style and form, my own way of seeing the world. I
’m trying to create a kind of storehouse of different movements,
discover how they work, then use them as inspiration.

I show a naked and often brutal reality.
I must have always painted or drawn.
That’s all I can remember.
I loved the magic of it, and I still do.
I search to become an eclectic artist and offer an innovating art
that reinvents the canons of plastic art constructions wish develop in a personal expressive form.
I work principally in oil paint on canvas and do a lot of drawing from nature and the human figure and I usually carry around a sketchbook, but I actually work from any source that sparks creativity in me.
I enjoy printmaking as well, especially linocut engravings, and work relentlessly on my future projects.
My exhibitions and art education brought me to numerous countries and cities
like Holland, Madrid, Cyprus, Berlin, London, The USA, the Czech Republic and of course France.
My work is to be found in private collections in Europe, the US and Australia.

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