Artworks by Bart Demeestere

Since I was a kid, creating was a part of me. Being an architect, parallel with being an artist, gave me architectural insights that strengthened my artistic language year after year. What it taught me, above all, is that what we see, what we think we see, and what we finally store as memory are rarely the same. That insight never left. It simply attached itself to a broader field of expression. There is no border between my architecture and my art, both are manifestations of the same primal urge: to organise the chaos of daily experience into a deeper form of order.

I work across oil on canvas, drypoint, drawing and mixed media. My prints of architectural locations combine drypoint, painted plate and hand-applied colour. No two are identical. That unrepeatability matters to me. I find my language in the abandoned realms where others fail to look, exploring the historical but often forgotten paths where art and architecture converge.

I find kinship with Paul Delvaux, who studied architecture before becoming a painter. With Henry van de Velde, who refused to separate art from architecture. And with Hundertwasser, who explored reality without borders.

Member of Svenska Konstnärsförbundet (SK).