Mimi Verhulst Lanese

I was born in Belgium, educated in Brussels an have been a resident of Virginia Beach since 1976.
I enjoy playing classical piano , music is an important source of inspiration.

I love to draw attention to my native country by means of its rich cultural heritage and have lectured extensively on the art and history of tapestries.

My Statement: THERE ARE NO FACTS ONLY INTERPRETATIONS:
I would like my paintings to be viewed with the same philosophy and hope that they evoke a range of reactions, emotions and meanings, which are as personal to each viewer a they are to me.

I am a self-taught artist, who after a one semester art class at Tidewater Community College in 1979, immediately started to pick up awards and prizes at the juried shows entered.
One critic states, that many of my paintings evoke the dreaminess of the Belgian surrealists, as well as a capacity to "give a sense of wonder to an otherwise normal environment.
A Belgian critic wrote this quote "Intimate surrealist"

I have exhibited throughout the East Coast as well as California and had solo exhibitions at the "Arts Club of Washington DC". "The Embassy of Belgium" in Washington DC. "The Faculty Club of the University of Leuven Belgium". "The Visual Arts Center" in Portsmouth Virginia and the "Pavilion I" in Virginia Beach (Satellite gallery of MOCA/ Museum of Contemporary art Virginia.
I have taken part of numerous Juried Exhibitions
My works are in private collections in Belgium: Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp.
France: Paris, Rennes, Saint Remy and Ménerbes en Provence
Spain: Barcelona, Cambrils
Italy:Rome
United States: NY, Washington DC, San Francisco, Mill Valley CA, Scottsdale AZ, Norfolk VA, Virginia Beach. Chapel Hill NC , Chicago ILL