Yves Beaumont

Belgian painter (Ostend °1970).



The work of Yves Beaumont is characterized not only by the constancy of its imagery, of the creative thought behind it, but also by his belief that he is a painter who can and may speak his own language. Though he gets his inspiration from a single source - the landscape - he has a gift for transforming this traditional subject into a contemporary meditation on painting and its means. In his own words, he looks for the 'visual translation of the landscape element'. Everything to do with this concept serves as a means and an impetus to, and a cause for, expressive enthusiasm, as a challenge to trace everything back to one ultimate point, to a line, to a surface division between light and dark, a graphic network of cracks in the ice, branches throwing a shadow against a bright background, shattering the serenity of a scenic rhythm, a vegetative element's twist, reflections and the emotionally charged yet composed feel of a repetitive memory of trees in dense forests and woodland areas. His painting is at once sober and ecstatic.

Yves Beaumont is currently represented by several contemporary artgalleries in Europe:

1989-1993: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent (Belgium) / Artpainting