First of all I want to welcome you, here, into my painted presentation of my own "kingdom".
I was born 27th of August, 1998 into a home where creativity and artistry was never far away, although it did take me until 2014 to start my own creative proces when I started art classes in Mechelen at the KA Lyceum Caputsteen, where I left after two years to continue and finish art high school at Sint-Lukas in Brussels. After with I attended the academy "KASK" in Ghent where got my Bachelor in painting and Master in the free arts.Troughout my studies at task I was in a constant search of giving my paintings a reason for existing, what they could mean for me and what I wanted to project at a non-existing public. My fascination for bible influenced myths and arts brought me into creating my view of what the "Kingdom" could be. It had to be a childish projection of a place where I could crawl trough the portcullis of my imaginary castles and feel safe and free to let my inner child do it's thing. For a long time I kept this kingdom inaccessible for others, as it was my place where I couldn't tolerate external entities to harm my childish fantasies. I translated this isolation trough paintings by giving glimpses of this kingdom but always with a sort of barrier present. It has only been recent that I started opening this visualized mental space because the needs of isolation where disappearing and a desire to reflower my garden (this kingdom) emerged. Here I am sharing a proces that started in 2019 up until now where I looked for vulnerability, safety, and above all, a lot of love. Childhood is a kingdom where nobody dies and in this one I wouldn't want it any different