Lucas Cann

#present Lucas Cann has been painting and sculpted for as long as he can remember. He mainly developed his painting/sculpting technique behind the scenes, during the years he was occupied by other professional activities. As a young man he spent one day at the academy, only to find out that this wasn’t an environment in which he was going to blossom. He chose to go his own way as an autodidact. Only now, around his sixtieth, does he come fore with his work, enriched by all the technical knowledge he assembled during the past years, and inspired by a richly filled life with scars here and there, lasting traces of less happy moments, as we all carry along.Lucas Cann is a professional who loves to show his mastery. At the same time, he is a true artistic soul for whom a daily stay in the studio is essential. “It’s my greatest consolation, I’m lost without the ability to create,” he admits. His work acts as a kind of healing, an opportunity to anoint the soul. Rarely, however, is it pure pleasure.” Creating is not the best thing on earth for me. I go through too many emotions. But if it wasn’t a struggle, then I was just a commission painter. Painting for me is an urge that has become a compulsion. I want to...

I am a chef by training. graduated with great distinction. However, I have never practiced this profession since my heart is with Art. In that period I learned the Artist Octave Landuyt, and was blown away by his knowledge, and regularly visited that in his enormous Atelier. Visit museums around the world, read books, experiment with all kinds of mediums! that's how I started. I did Abstract art for a while (out of necessity because after an accident and subsequent operations I was paralyzed in one arm and I could only use the other hand for 25%. I went crazy to be able to Create Nothing but after a while (Long rehabilitation) everything came back well And I realized that I am a Figurative Artist

Permanent exhibition at his workshop in Destelbergen Belgium ,on appointment