Hilde Heymans

E: h2art@telenet.be

IG: @hilde2art

Hilde was born in Brussels in 1957 and studied drawing, painting and art history at the Academy of visual and audio-visual arts (Leuven, Belgium). She lives and works near Brussels, Belgium is her home based art studio.

Art has always been a constant companion in her life. She used to dance classical ballet during my younger years and always loved expressing herself with visual lines and elegant forms. Nowadays she expresses these same lines in her art work, where she combines them with the feelings that appear to her during the painting process or as a result from social interactions.

Artist Statement: Art is my kind of therapy and it has helped me overcome significant milestones in my life. So much even that I wanted to spread this positive experience to others, such as autistic children during painting art therapy classes and cancer patients in accepting their new body or to ‘forget’ the c-word and just be in the moment for a while. I also taught and practiced art with children during weekends and holidays, as I believe children have a great set of inspiration and they see the surroundings differently with their unconditional and honest approach to life. Helping and supporting them was one of the most memorable moments in my artistic life ! If I had to identify a constant in my work, I would analyze it as following : the world around me is a source of inspiration, as is the value of nature, the daily life and the madness of the contemporary world. They give me impressions, feelings and emotions. I work slowly through a succession of layers and little by little these layers become a language. At the beginning when I start a painting, I can have more or less an idea, but I don’t know which image will appear. Through my work, I try to send the viewer on a discovery, and hope to surprise him/her with the colours, shapes, forms and lines. The texts and words that I use in some works are my own, sometimes inspired by my favourite art writer Austin Kleon.

I believe that the wonder and mystery of art and life are found in the directness of the present. My art gives me a sense of freedom. I hope that I can do this forever !”

Past exhibitions

2004 : University Hospital Gasthuisberg - Leuven

2005 : University Hospital Saint Luc - Brussels

2006 : Le Cerf volant - Brussels

2010 : Business Center - Architeam - Brussels

2011 : Business Center - Architeam - Brussels

2012 : SILO’S - Flemish Brabant - Boortmeerbeek

2012 : Abbaye de Forest - Brussels

2013 : Parcours d’Artistes - Flemish Brabant

2014 : Fondation Artfeeling - Flemish Brabant -. Hever

2015 : Fondation Artfeeling - Flemish Brabant - Hever

2016 : Fondation Artfeeling - Flemish Brabant - Hever

2016 : University Hospital Gasthuisberg - Leuven

2017 : SILO’S - Flemish Brabant - Boortmeerbeek

2017 : Fondation Artfeeling - Flemish Brabant - Hever

2018 : Businesscenter - Architeam - Brussels

2019 : Businesscenter - Architeam - Brussels

2020 : Businesscenter - Architeam - Brussels