About

I paint mostly in oil on linen, working in an expressive figurative style — though lately I've been letting the work drift toward abstraction, loosening my grip on the figure to see what else the paint can say.

My subjects keep returning to a handful of themes: the female body, portraiture, motherhood, natural landscapes, still lifes, and interior scenes. What draws me to all of them is really the same thing — a sense of intimacy. I'm less interested in depicting a scene accurately than in capturing the feeling of being close to it: the hush of a room, the weight of a body, the particular light of a landscape at a certain hour.

I was drawn to art from a young age and started drawing seriously as a teenager. That path led me to study art history at university, while training in drawing at the academy alongside it. For several years afterward, I stepped away from painting entirely — perfectionism made it hard to let myself make work that wasn't already finished in my head.

I came back to painting two years ago, and it's stayed with me since, because it's the one thing I care about without reservation. That return shows up in the work itself: less concerned with getting things "right," more willing to follow color and feeling where they lead.

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Alongside painting, I've also spent the past years learning furniture upholstery and rattan chair caning — a slower, more tactile craft that complements the work I do at the easel.

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I work from my studio in Bonheiden, in the Antwerp region. If you'd like to see a painting in person, feel free to reach out by email — I'm happy to arrange a studio visit.