DE KUNSTENAARS
1 KRISTIN BEMELMANS / BEMEL
Kristin Be.me.l-mans is geboren op 12 mei 1974. Een energieke dame! Buiten de lijntjes kleuren, ‘een hoek af’ hebben, spelen als een kind, emoties loslaten en out-of-the box denken heeft haar gebracht tot een ontdekking die volledig bij haar past.
Schilderen aan de achterzijde van plexiglas.
Hierdoor ziet ze niet wat ze schildert en is het een soort ‘blind’ proces. Controle loslaten en vertrouwen hebben zijn twee basisvoorwaarden om een schilderij aan de achterkant op plexiglas tot stand te laten komen, volledig vanuit ‘flow’. Net zoals zij leeft. Met haar schilderijen en de manier waarop deze tot stand komen wilt ze een boodschap geven:
we hebben geen controle over het leven, dus volg je hart, laat zien wie je bent en zet jouw eigen kleur in de wereld! Als er een hoekje af is, zoek het dan niet. Je bent prachtig hoe je bent. Er is er maar ééntje zoals jij! Zie jezelf graag…
Sowieso is werken met felle kleuren een drang die onstuitbaar is, en op plexiglas knallen de kleuren extra. De drijvende kracht achter haar kunstwerken is een spirituele zoektocht. Haar schilderijen behoren tot het intuïtief abstract expressionisme. Intuïtief, omdat ze meestal zonder plan vertrekt. Abstract, omdat ze wil prikkelen en relativeren. Expressief, omdat ze haar verhaal wil vertellen, omdat ze wil inspireren. Ze probeert met kleur te vertellen wat ze met taal niet kan bereiken.
www.atelierbemel.be
2 KATHLEEN STEEGMANS
I make paintings, illustrations & mixed media art to show you what I see, to make you feel what I feel and to share with you what I’ve been taught. This results in figurative paintings, mixed media art and prints in which people take a central place. My goal is to create aesthetically pleasing images with a story that can give your living space that extra touch of personality.
As a child, I was drawn to the beautiful, mysterious and sometimes shocking images I saw in my parents’ photo gallery. My fascination for the power of images was born so it was no surprise that I chose the path of visual art as a 16-year-old.
In June 1998, I graduated as a Master of Visual Art, but until some time ago I believed in the myth of the starving artist. I LOVE te eat so that idea didn’t really resonate. As a result I worked as an employee in different functions & companies until I started a creative agency with a focus on images for B2B clients, MIST, together with my partner in 2011. In 2017 I decided to go back to my passion and I now focus on creating personal work again.
I hope to inspire others to choose what makes you happier than happy? To live the life they love & love the life they live. This by setting an example and by the themes in my work that tell stories about personal growth, beliefs, positivity & the power of our minds.
I live and work in Antwerp, Belgium.
3 JOHN BOTHAM
Matin John Botham was born in 1963 in Grahamstown, located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, where he grew up and matriculated after an interlude of two years at the Drakensberg Boys Choir School. He went on to study art at Rhodes Univeristy, following his passion for art.
After completing a Bachelor of Fine Art Honors degree, John taught art for sixteen years in South Africa and England. He then embarked on a career as a full time artist. Inspired by the South African countryside with its dramatic colors and abstract landscape shapes he dedicates his days in his studio into transforming these images into oil on canvas.
“I strive to express in my work a joyous sense of being at ease with my own life, an existence living in peace and harmony with nature. I try to create a new poetic reality through tapestry-like landscape of light.”
“I am fascinated by the power of color and I endeavor in my paintings to search for the mystical longing of light that dwells in all of life. I hope to express an inner tranquility in contrast to the fast-moving busy pace of life as it is today.”
4 BARBARA BUCHOWIEC
Music & art are the two most important passions of Barbara.
About my paintings …
Inspired by the music, I changed the expressive materials from sound to visual. All my works are inspired by the individuality of all physical phenomenons and energies, found in nature. The aim of this process is to find a magical combination between physical matter and musical elements. In order to find the right resources to translate these elements such as pitch, rhythm, texture, timbre, dynamics to visual projection.
5 P/ART
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