Skaii De Vega

Une histoire, vite fait

Let's get real, and here are the facts. Total acceptance and non-judgement. If you think you're not up to that, read no further. Let's keep this circle filled with LIGHT.

It was 2006 and I was 19 years old. I was pregnant, and afraid. I had ran away from my family home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to France to give birth to my child a few months ago and right then, I was held down on a bed in nothing but a hospital gown, alone, in pain and waiting for my daughter to come forth on this earth. Twelve hours later, Aaliyah is born and my universe explodes - a cacophony of colours, a jungle of emotions.
She is my raison-d'etre and the reason Skaii de Vega exists.

I started painting in 2011 in Brussels. The artistic fire that has always been simmering within my soul, like red hot ember coals suddenly burst into fiery flames. It could have been the spirit of the city, the multicultural artistic frenzy that is Brussels, or it could have been the result of self-introspection. Whatever it was, paint, brushes and canvas were bought and The Flower of Life painting came to be. This painting reflected the beginning of my self-discovery and spiritual journey. I mainly experimented with sacred geometries and symbolic...

2011-2018 : Autodidacte
End 2018 : Tutelage under Semyon Bilmes in Atelier Maui, USA