Catherine Van Thielen

I am at the same time, table decorator, staging decor, passionate about contemporary and conceptual art, sculpture and photography.

I am a naturalist

I believe that art is a therapy (both for the one who executes it and for the one who receives it). I believe that we are able to see truth, beauty, and wealth both in us and around us. And when we take the means to achieve them, we are completely fulfilled.
I also believe that we are vulnerable, complicated and dependent on a system that sometimes weakens us.


I am an artist

I spent my early career traveling through England, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, where my work consisted of the commercial representation of Belgian know-how. This involved the organization of seminars and a market study. It was interesting work, besides the technical aspect of the work, it was based on the human aspect, being able to adapt to other cultures. They were very powerful but at the same time exhausting, my body and my soul weakened.
And then ... I had a period of reflection or naturally painting made me feel good, my own therapy, or we stop thinking about ourselves, or we share, or we open. Since then, I have continued to practice it through drawing, ...

10/2012 – 05/2013 Purveyor – Planner Logistics Competence Center (La Louviere, BE)

09/2008 – 06/2009 Master in Business Administration United Business Institutes (Brussels, BE)

09/2002 – 06/2005 Baccalauréat G3 (International Trade) EPC – Université du Travail (Charleroi, BE)