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Henry Matisse
  • Becoming a painter was never my intention. It just happened, and this is how
    A screenprinted self portrait

    Becoming a painter was never my intention. It just happened

    and this is how

    With a classical education in high school and a commercial engineering degree, I never intended to paint, spray graffiti or screen print. But it happened through a series of coincidences and the love for art and comics.

     

    Though I have always loved to doodle whenever in class, a meeting or on the phone (without actually losing any concentration) I never took the time to explore drawing techniques in depth and master the craft of true artistery. Mostly because I had no patience. Later on in university, I started making comics in my spare time. Unfortunately, these were all lost.

     

    And then one starts to work long days at a consulting firm and later on in a bank.The doodling continued, but again no time was taken for making paintings or drawings. Until my love for arts - mostly the famous artists such as Francis Bacon, Miro, Keith Haring and Yoshiomo Nara - lead to the purchase of some goache, and I started to paint. Making my first paintings on paper.

     

    One Christmas eve, when celebrating with the family, the husband of my cousin gave me 3 spray cans and a stencil of my face. This was the actual start of me starting to create and dedicate massive time to my art. My spraying days had begun and I quickly looked for and found a studio (located in Destelbergen, Belgium). 

     

    This eventually lead me to exploring more techniques and screenprinting. Which is the technique I now use most frequently.

  • My graffiti past

  • AND THEN CORONA CAME, and the memory series were born

    AND THEN CORONA CAME

    and the memory series were born

    During corona we were not allowed non-essential travel, which lead to a lot of time rethinking the theme I was working on at that time. Intrigued by the smombies I made a lot of works around the theme of people becoming addicted to their smartphone: the smombies series. I just had to scroll on the interent to find thousands of pictures of people being sucked into the screen, barely realising what is going on around them and just struggling for likes. An endless resources for compositions.

     

    Yet i was drawn to a more universal theme being our memories and the fading of them. And that is exactly what I try to capture in these works: They are fragmented, they come in different colors and shapes, they are never complete and they fade in time. They seem abstract and unrecogniseable at a first glance - but the longer you look, the more they reveal themselves.