PROFILE
I am a Belgian visual artist working across collage, painting, and printmaking. My art explores themes of connection, transformation, and time, using layering and visual contrast as tools for storytelling. I investigate how materials, shapes, and histories interact—how they collide, merge, or resonate in dialogue.
Originally trained in applied graphics and graphic design, I combine technical precision with intuitive processes. My work often begins with collage and evolves through painting into compositions rich in texture, rhythm, and reinterpretation. I present my work under the label *Atelier P* and exhibit regularly throughout Belgium.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
From Collage to Painting – A Search in Layers
My paintings originate from collages. In these intuitive compositions, I gather images, shapes, and textures from various sources. They form the starting point of a visual investigation—a search for balance, tension, connection, and meaning.
Some of these works arise from photographs taken at music festivals—moments filled with rhythm, expression, and togetherness. Music is like a red thread through my art: it sets the tempo of the composition and resonates in the layering of each piece. The images are cut, rearranged, and intertwined with graphic techniques such as etching, collagraphy, and monoprints. The result is a series of vibrant, intuitive collages where sound and image engage in a visual dialogue.
The collage is not a final product, but a fertile ground. During the painting process, the elements transform—they are painted over, distorted, or disappear entirely. What remains is an echo of the original image, merged with new layers and impulses.
Some collages are finished with a layer of resin. This transparent skin seals the work, deepens the colors, and makes the layers physically tangible. The resin acts as a final, silent note over the image—a glossy echo of the musical moment.
This process leads to paintings that reflect construction, deconstruction, and reinterpretation—where connection, rhythm, layering, and time are key. In all aspects of my work, I seek dialogue: between material and memory, between image and sound, between past and present.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- Painting – Studio Hilde Overbergh, SLAC Leuven
- Graphic design – SLAC Academy of Fine Arts, Leuven
- Graphic Design
- Higher Education in Applied Graphics, Sint-Lukas Brussels
- SLAC Academy of Fine Arts, Leuven
- Graduation Project – Limited series of metal furniture
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Artist & Founder – Atelier P (ongoing)
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2025
Atelier in Beeld
2024
Art Biennale – Soroptimist & Kiwanis, in collaboration with KU Leuven (Oct)
“Inzicht” – Silo Leuven (Mar)
2023
“When Time Fades into Time” – TaLe Art Gallery, Vlierzele (Oct)
Kunstroute Leuven (May)
Atelier in Beeld
Expo - Gallery Art of Happiness, Scherpenheuvel (May)
2022
Finalist – Painting Competition, CC Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg (Nov)
Exit Expo – Final Exhibition, SLAC Painting Studio (Jun)
2020
Engskes Auction – Ronde Tafel Leuven (Nov)
Art Against Corona – Soroptimist & Kiwanis with KU Leuven (Oct)
Optiek Verhulst & Café Metropole – Leuven (Sep)
Earlier
Group & solo exhibitions in Lebbeke, Overijse, Leuven, Bertem, Rotselaar (2014–2018)
Symbiosis XL – M Museum Leuven (May 2014)
Bertem Buiten Gewoon – various editions
PUBLICATIONS
The Art Couch – “News as a Source of Artistic Inspiration”
Home Sweet Home Magazine – Feature article, November 2019
MOTIVATION
Light is more than a physical phenomenon to me—it is a force that connects, reveals, and transforms. It plays with form and structure, uncovers nuance, and creates dialogue between matter and emotion. I am fascinated by the chemistry of light: its interplay between shadow and clarity, the visible and invisible, the tangible and the felt.
In all my work, I strive to create connection: between people, stories, and materials. Light acts as a catalyst in this process, opening space for reflection, interpretation, and meaning.
