Coming from a family of artists, the art world has always been a significant part of my life. I am mostly self-taught, yet my background in art history and experience at Xavier Hufkens gallery give me a unique perspective on the art world.

Creating is my way of making sense of the world. I perceive everything around me through a highly visual and intuitive lens, always attuned to color, light, and composition. My work is an invitation into vivid and dreamlike spaces—balancing wonder, serenity, and ambiguity. I aim to bring color and emotion into people’s lives, offering moments of escape and reflection. With a background in art history, I approach painting with both imagination and knowledge, blending creative intuition with a deep understanding of technique and historical references. Working primarily in oils, I develop my ideas through series to fully explore themes and visual concepts. Each painting is built through careful preparation, yet remains open to spontaneity. My process is a dialogue between observation and interpretation, familiarity and originality, structure and creative experimentation. A relentless explorer in my practice, I constantly push myself to evolve while staying true to my artistic beliefs.

With my series of fictional landscapes I want to welcome you on a journey of discovery, transport you to surreal, dreamlike worlds, evoking a feeling you get when wandering and experiencing things for the first time. There is often a contradiction between loveliness and eeriness or confrontation. I start with digital sketches from my imagination and refine them with natural elements, almost like a collage. Throughout my work, I constantly explore the effects of light. To understand how it interacts with forms, I often build small 'maquettes', allowing me to study shadows before translating them onto canvas.

My recent work shifts toward still-life compositions of flowers and objects. Rather than painting them as static arrangements, I 'portray' them as individual characters within a theatrical, composed scene. Light plays a key role here, using both natural and artificial lighting to create striking contrasts, emphasizing depth and atmosphere. The compositions are then reinterpreted into a more artistic vision on canvas, enhancing contrasts, blurring lines, altering colors, and introducing unexpected elements. Shadows almost have a character of their own, either very present or fugitive. These paintings also reference the Old Masters, daring to touch this historically saturated yet universally compelling theme of still life again, but with a fresh, contemporary perspective. The work explores the effects of scale and lighting, and the tension between depth and flatness. It contrasts edge and loveliness, reality and imagination, creating balance while maintaining an element of drama and intrigue.

Join me on a journey through fantastical worlds of magical forests, bold flowers, wondrous mountain peaks and funky gardens, ...