About Lieven D.
Lieven Dermaut was
born July 14th 1965
in the city of Kortrijk.
He has always been
drawing and painting with a kind of
regular discipline that enabled him to continually grow , discover and develop.
The picture gallery gives you a partly impression of his drawings and paintings: an astonishing collection of scenes, drawn by means of feathers and coloured by aquarelles.
The ambiguity of the
work, combined with the old, yet
familiar universal symbols will unveil an out of the ordinary, but trustworthy reality. Scenes from the everyday human world are
depicted ; love, friendship, trust and sincerity, but also decay, treason, distrust, trickyness and indecency!
Looking closer at the works,
one will almost surely slow down pace and enjoy them with a complacent
smile…
In 2003, Lieven D. undertook
a commitment with wood; wooden nature
gave him room for inspiration and he
would give wood a glittering goal!
Nowadays, while trees
are threatened world-wide by lumbering,
air- and soil pollution and by irrational mismanagement out of unilateral
economical interests, the artistically minded and inspired wood engraving is a
tribute to the tree itself.
Wood engraving
definitely is a challenge!
Drawing a line into
wood surely is totally different to drawing a line onto paper; burins, gouges
and all sorts of chisels have replaced the pencils, the pens and the brushes.
Contrary to the
manipulation of paper and canvas, wood
engravings demand a lot of muscular strength.
Moreover, there’s a
variety of woods; some types are very suitable
provided that you keep on working fully concentrated and devoted; Lieven experienced also other types that have a structure that is too fibrous, too
frayes, too soft…
The picture gallery also
gives you an idea of the wood sculptures.
Of course, a visit in
person to the paintings as well as the
drawings and the sculptures would be more powerful than a visit at the picture gallery on the
site.
The scenes unveil
numerous details and winks; they depict
a dimension, fully observed by Lieven D. and in which he feels settled down.
It also is in that
dimension that you’ll find the wood sculptures with an unique symbiosis between
tree and artist, between nature and culture.
His vast body of work
is the result of thousands of working hours.
Lieven D. exhibits only now and then; his works want to be seen while he is not so keen at leaving his atelier!
You are welcome in his
gallery and atelier.
Please make an
appointment in advance.