Eric Le Pape (FRANCE)

The "Sailor" artist unveils a unique journey, transitioning from an immersive maritime career to his primary passion, painting.

Immersed in colours since childhood, he explores the sea with knives, capturing the deep blues of ultramarine and cerulean. His maritime career, guided by a profound love for the sea as a human adventure rich in history, naturally complements his connection to painting.

The vibrant use of colour remains essential in his compositions, reflecting his personality. Facing the canvas, he moves on impulse, allowing the unconscious to guide his creativity towards a magical freedom.

Using the palette knife intensively, his act of painting is sometimes perceived as forceful but devoid of chance.

The artist embraces the paradox of art where "imperfection" and "beauty" converge. He acknowledges that imperfections breathe life into sincere intentions and feelings, capturing the essence of his work.

Jehanne Petiau (FRANCE)

French artist and painter decorator.

After obtaining a degree in Art, then graduated from the Van der Kelen Higher School of Painting in 2013, she moved to Brussels where she practices “trompe l’oeil” and decorative painting, while exploring multiple artistic fields, from illustration to portraiture through restoring, fashion creations and special orders…

Samuel Levy (BELGIUM)

Visual artist, energy catalyst, I store everything around us, mix everything and transcribed on the canvas. Working without preconceived ideas, without established concept, it is the energetic relationship, the interaction between the external elements and the work that interests me. My technique: drawing. My works refer to automatic drawings, children's drawings, or digital, it is the rendering and the generative aspect of the image that interests me. After painting for several years, I wanted to reduce the palette of tools in order to concentrate on the essential, the drawing that allows me to refine my technique and this is how I generate a singular universe.

Isabelle Marchal (LUXEMBURG)

Belgian hyper-realistic animal artist.1982: Agrégée en Arts Plastiques. She exhibited individually or collectively in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, France, ...

His favorite theme: The animal look.

The gouache, the pastel on old papers translate the benevolent look of the cat on our carefree society.

The brush stroke on canvas reveals the animal with the precision of the acrylic technique. His gesture also reminds us that he risks becoming a scar like the evocation of a memory.

Do you need to remind us of the image of this endangered fauna?

The dream revelation is embroidered, worked, torn ...

His animal eyes invite us to enter his world, tells a story, puts us face to face with reality.

Frank Jons (Luxemburg)

Born in 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt (France), Frank Jons has been living and working in Luxembourg since 2001. A trained accountant and finance specialist, he decided to make his childhood dream come true and devote his life to painting in 1996.

A defining moment in his artistic development was the retrospective exhibition of Maurice Estève at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1986. Whether Matisse, Van Gogh, Debré, Alechinsky, Rothko or Soulages – Jons absorbed art, but it was colour that got him hooked..

Here how he’s presenting his work :

“A physical engagement with painting – in the true sense of the word. A constant struggle where anger coexists and clashes with tenderness, sadness, love and happiness. The music’s loud. The player gets stuck on the same song, and after a while I’ve had enough of it. I’m looking down on the canvas, I’m walking around it, I become one with it. My painting is all focus and fluidity, but also full of contradictions – between the energy of the initial attack and the composure needed for its development, between the passion of feelings and the calm that follows it, between the violence of chaos and the gentleness of love. This is the story of my inner turmoil.

Anne-Marie Monin (BELGIUM)

For me, painting is a way of expressing what I feel.

I love more and more pure colors. I find them brighter and I do not miss to use in my landscapes or in my flowers.

I think that in art, you can use any means to get to the original goal: to have fun by representing something that is beautiful.

Maria Burgaz (SPAIN)

When you enter little by little into my personal world you discover a narration full of symbols that are all over the canvas, and which show a story that with irony and humour will hopefully make you stare at my work.

You will always find a positive sight of the world, a world of excess which turns the excess to harmony, the delightful harmony of chaos.

Besides all the sensations and information that you find in my work, I concentrate  to match techniques, materials and images with words, messages, making my work a continuous search without stopping in the things that I already know, but searching and discovering new ways to express so much that I have inside, and that I can´t stop expressing.

Frédéric Bastin (BELGIUM)

Frédéric Bastin is a painter who combines art and well-being. His personal work in art uses colors and compositions for the same purpose : to bring you into a state of contemplation and dream.

Your deep emotions arise to cultivate the best of you. Also an art therapist in Liège (Belgium), his workshops bring out your potential and develop your self-confidence.

Each of us is an artist : we expose ourselves by creating our life from our dreams.

Isabelle Pelletane (FRANCE)

In my recent work, series of exploding flowers and flowing foliage exploit the graphic and rhythmic aesthetics of the plant kingdom. The abstract forms refer to lush vegetation, drawn from heavenly scenery of my trips to the islands.

A turbulent nature, blurred in its representation, apparent dualities that question our ambivalent position on environmental issues in our consumer society.

These heavenly gardens, happily colored, continue to fuel my dreams of escape and a resolutely optimistic vision where man and nature live harmoniously.

Everything is in the act of painting, the gesture provoking expulsion, without threads, instinctive, energetic.

Michel Laasman ( BELGIUM)

I paint in watercolor on a synthetic waterproof support. The pigments remain on the surface creating very special effects. The possibilities of withdrawals and additions are endless which opens the doors of a creative universe where freedom is total.

My favorite subject is landscape in all its forms with a special attraction for geometry and perspectives of urban or industrial landscapes. However, I do not try to faithfully reproduce reality but to suggest it by a play of forms, spots and colors sometimes close to abstraction.

The inspiration also comes from what is happening on the support when the first touches of color are asked. Watercolor has the faculty of having its "own existence", the pigments are spread over the water by creating movements and shapes that can be more or less controlled but where a part remains random.

Antoine Vanheesbeke (BELGIUM)

What counts for me is to create above all, because the work has its own way that goes far beyond who I am.

Steeped in a rich and complex culture, the idea that inspires me is often confusing and has its source in various modern and contemporary artistic trends.

The creative force that pushes me away so partially. What remains is the material and fragments of life that tell my hopes and my fears: the unanswered questions, the time that passes, the absurdity of life in the face of a silent world, whatever in perpetual motion, the snapshot.

Art is for me a refuge where all these reflections collide.

Marc-André Metais (BELGIUM)

Belgian artist, Marc-André expresses himself through several supports such as wood, Plexiglas, canvas or still the totem. The “Figurative abstraction” of the artist asks to stop, to ask, to take full advantage of an emotional and pictorial moment.

Through different themes is reflected the synaesthesia of the artist? As a result, Marc André Metais works his paintings as pictorial musical compositions inviting the spectator to stop and appreciate them. Each color is a musical note. The harmonies, the tensions, the chromatic scales take us into the colorful, geometric, lyrical and organic universe of Marc-André.

Nature as well as urban and rural environment are also essential elements in the creation of the artist. It plunges fully into the present moment allowing gestures, touches and colors to connect harmoniously. This way of proceeding combines emotion, form, intuition and abstraction.

Marie-Christine Thiercelin (FRANCE)

When I paint, I look for abandonment, I dive into the color, its depth, I get lost, I find myself, I let go.

When the hand finds its features, I let emerge raw forms, tender forms. They are melted or protruding.

It's a face or an abstraction; it does not matter.

I explore, I push the features, the shades to surprise, astonishment; discover what I do not know.

I like that the form does not remain fixed, that it moves in the eyes of each one, every day at every moment.

Aline Deworme (BELGIUM)

Painting and drawing have always been for me a way of expressing emotions.

Works for arts2be are part of a series that I call 'consciousness'. They begin with a cry of rage and incomprehension, followed by a slow take or resumption of control of the environment and life.

They were painted between 2014 and 2015, illustrating misunderstanding, fear, anger, hope and detachment represented by the tree of life and fish in the ocean.

Léa Tridetti ( BELGIUM)

As a conceptual visual artist, I am always looking for new means of expression and new challenges: painting, contemporary sculpture, tapestry, installation, performance, to involve the passer-by in the work.

I represent my inner world with its complexities, its joys and its sufferings I like playing with the material, the color and the composition. From an early age, everything that falls into my hands is diverted from its primary function to be transformed into an unusual object without any use, just for the pleasure of creation.

Josette Laurent (BELGIUM)

I paint with great gestures where the hand becomes the spontaneous extension of the soul seeks to transcribe on the canvas my emotional overflow.

The canvas then becomes my battlefield where brushes, brushes, spalters, knives etc ... lead the fight in a big-bang disorder controlled.

Everything is for me reason of inspiration when sensitivity, movement and emotion are at the rendez-vous. Acrylic, oil, mixed media, watercolor ... without locking myself into a particular genre and technique but diversifying and throwing me each time a challenge, I like to walk, under my expressive influence, at the edge of the figurative and the abstract.