Lieve Gabriel

My work stems from a profound desire to connect with my surroundings – the delicate or rough textures visible in roads and walls, natural rocks, lakes and trees...

Through my work I attempt to reconnect with the Essence from which we all derive: Stardust. This attempt to reconnect with our true Essence and identity also stresses the importance to appreciate something without which life as we know it would not exist: Time.

Since utter freedom of expression is celebrated in my work, painting must be left free and proud to be itself without restrictions or planning. Everything is left to chance/fate with little or no conscious interference.

The brushstrokes are fast, forceful and bold. It is always so fascinating to discover inner stories and truths hidden away in the subconscious to materialise and take form and shape in my canvases.

Furthermore, it's also fascinating to see the emerging of surreal faces and objects from the intertwining of lines and shades of colour; as if, inadvertently and unconsciously, I breathe life into a new world that exists only and exclusively in my canvases.