Artist Statement:
I grew up in the 1980s, surrounded by pop culture, cartoon heroes, MTV, and molded plastic objects. A graduate of the Fine Arts, I’m what you might call a "serial painter"—constantly creating, always shifting between styles, formats, and visual obsessions. My work moves freely from sharp-edged hyperrealism to bold, pop-infused imagery, often laced with Japanese or advertising aesthetics.
I don’t paint to decorate or to idealize. I paint to expose what feeds my eye and my mind—the overlooked, the disposable, the mass-produced. A crushed soda can, a lipstick-smudged mirror, a high-end handbag, or a cleaning spray bottle: these are the things that tell the story of who we are, often more honestly than our portraits.
I’m a compulsive collector of images—some might call them insignificant—but to me, they are visual fossils of our consumer-driven world. Anything flat, square, or vaguely plastic can become a subject, as long as it speaks to the visual noise we live in, both online and in the real world.
Painting, for me, is a way to slow down the flow of images, to dissect and reframe what we no longer truly see. It’s a mix of fascination, critique, and sometimes irony. In a time when everything is designed to be consumed and forgotten, I paint to remember—and to confront.
Education:
Education:
Graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels, Belgium. (Aggregation Superior - 2010)
Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Expression Plastique, Tourcoing (Nord, France)
(Master of fine arts - MFA - DNSEP - 2006)
Exhibitions:
2017
Ten Gallery, Knokke Heist, Belgium
2013
JPB Art Gallery, St Tropez, France
Strip Art Gallery, Paris, France
2012
JPB Art Gallery, St Tropez, France
Lille Art Fair, Lille, France
Xavier Ronse Gallery, Mouscron, Belgium
2011
JPB Art Gallery, St Tropez, France
Xavier Ronse Gallery, Mouscron, Belgium
Fardel Fine Art Gallery, Le Touquet, France
2010
Fine Arts Museum , Le Touquet, France
School of Fine Arts, St Omer, France
Collection:
Mercedes-Benz Contemporary Art collection, Lille, France
Fine Arts Museum , Le Touquet, France
Artistic Influences:
My visual language is shaped by a wide range of influences—from the meticulous compositions of hyperrealist painters like Chuck Close, Raphaella Spence, and Richard Estes, to the bold irony of pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Erró. I’m also deeply inspired by political and socially engaged art, particularly the raw energy of artists like Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, or more recently, Banksy. Japanese printmaking, manga aesthetics, and vintage advertising visuals have also left a strong imprint on my work. I’m drawn to anything that blends precision with subversion, technique with cultural commentary. My tastes oscillate between the ultra-polished and the brutally direct—between the seductive surface of consumerism and the critique it invites.
Artist Tags:
photorealism, manga, garbage
