Since the end of February I create an art work based on what I read, see, feel in connection with current events, (almost) every day. In the meantime, there are more than 300 tiles of 20 x 20 cm in all kinds of techniques.
Here is a selection from the recent series.
One day I hope to show them all together to the public.
The central theme of the work is inspired by the song “Bird on the wire” by Leonard Cohen.
“Like a bird … I have tried in my way to be free”
The people on the skull dream of a future without a pandemic, being allowed to stay close to each other. They are watching the birds flying high above the problems on Earth with a greater perspective. The lines on the skull represent the universe and the dream to be free again.
In her work, the Belgian artist Anne Brems translates into images the observations, experiences and life events, both from her professional life as a psychologist and her personal life. The choice of material is free and distinct. The techniques are used pure or mixed. Through her artistic studies at the Slac in Leuven and the Académie des Beaux Arts de Namur, as well as through fascinating workshops that she has attended around the world, her work has been developing. Thinking and reflecting lead her work to commitment and relativity, and she dares to experiment. Time, wonder, nostalgia, and a touch of humour and absurdity, run like a red thread through her artwork.
The Wall is a collaborative mail art project initiated, organized and curated by Global Art Project (GAP) member Tina Morris. An actual, virtual and video registration – mail art project organized with the intention to bring together artists and art lovers during the corona pandemic and its effects and restrictions we are currently experiencing. The Wall – mail art exhibit will take place from Saturday April 10 till Monday April 12 2021 in Whitby North Yorkshire in the United Kingdown.
We are very pleased to announce the venue locations and dates for the ‘Get Out Of Your Skull’ art project in 2021-2022….
‘Get out of your skull’ – is an international collaborative art project with the participation of 64 artists from 20 countries.
Participating artists: Echi Aaberg – Sweden, Inge Aerden – Belgium, Timo Ahjotuli – Finland, Mia Andrésen – NL, Francis Beaty – USA, Mirjam Boomert – NL, Anne Brems – Belgium, Lon Buttstedt – NL, Charo Carrera – Spain, Juan Manuel Fernández Cuichán – Ecuador/Spain, Carlos Luis DeMedeiros – Brazilia, Nick van Dijck – Belgium, Evelyne Dominault – France, Jan van Dorp – NL, Andreja Eržen – Slovenia, Mikel Frank – USA, Ana Gabiño – Mexico, Ann Geirnaerdt – Belgium, Coco van Gent – NL, Leonard Greco – USA, Sander Groen – NL, Felicity Griffin Clark – Italy, Diana van Hal – NL, Emily Hastings – USA, Peter Hess – USA, Inge Hoefnagel – NL, David Jenowe – USA, Mar-Grietje Killian – NL, Taeyoun Kim – South Korea, Laszlo Koscso – Hungary, Paula Kouwenhoven – NL, Ernst Kraft – Spain, Anka Krašna – Slovenia, Bea Last – UK, Paul Lorenz – USA, Constance McBride – USA, Naomi Middelmann – Switzerland, Petra Moll – Ireland, Ringo Mollinger – NL, Christine Morren – Belgium, Tina Morris – UK, Helene Öfwerström – Sweden, Susumu Ohira – Japan, Amy Oliver – UK, Liesbet Optendrees – NL, Domien van Parys – NL, Ralph Posset – NL, Frédérique Rennuit – Belgium, Colin Rhodes – UK, Clovis Schlumberger – France, Peter Schudde – NL, Harry Schumacher – NL, Ron Shelton – USA, Larisa Sjoerds – NL, Patricia Stacke-kelly – Ireland, Giannis Stamenitis – Greece, Tanja Tanevska – SR Macedonia, Erik-Jan Vaanderig – NL, Christine Verhaert – Belgium, Frans van Viegen – NL, Karin de Visser – NL, Ron Weijers – NL, Frans de Winter – NL, Madeleine Wories – USA
With the support of High Art Fridays (HAF) art platform and curator Ron Shelton, Art Wall and editor/curator Laszlo Ladany, Inspirational Magazine and editor John Hopper and Global Art Project (GAP) and Carl Heyward for their ongoing support.
Due to the current Corona pandemic we will have to follow the governmental rules and regulations on public venues and we will inform in the case of changes in the program due to these regulations. Stay safe….
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In deze workshops komen volgende onderwerpen aan bod:
welke materialen zijn interessant, hoe een beeld overbrengen op een andere drager, monotype technieken, werken met pigmenten, methoden om lagen over lagen te leggen, compositieproblemen oplossen…
Ook workshops over kleuren en gebruik van gelli plate zijn mogelijk, daarvoor stellen we dan een groepje samen.
We werken op klein formaat zodat er veel uitgeprobeerd kan worden in korte tijd
Datum: te bepalen in overleg
Adres: 3020 Winksele
Bijdrage: 35 euro per dagdeel. Materiaalgebruik inbegrepen. Eigen materiaal meebrengen kan, maar hoeft niet. Inschrijven voor meerdere dagdelen mogelijk. (Eventueel lunchpakketje meebrengen.)
L’association Rue des Arts Le leitmotiv de l’association est la promotion de l’art en milieu rural. Elle est domiciliée à la Galerie du Philosophe, située dans le petit village d’artistes du Carla-Bayle en Ariège à une petite heure de Toulouse comme de Foix. Avec plus de vingt-cinq ans d’existence, elle a réussi à se forger une identité, un réseau et un public. Le village rayonne grâce à ses actions dans le grand sud du pays voir même au niveau national et à l’étranger. En plus de promouvoir le travail d’artistes reconnus et amateurs lors de monographies ou lors de festivals d’arts plastiques, l’association se tourne de plus en plus vers les publics spécifiques tels que les scolaires, résidents de centres d’accueils de demandeurs d’asile, résidents de foyers de vie, avec des ateliers et des médiations de qualité.
Les Cents Centimètres Carrés Créée lors de l’hiver 2011-12 par l’association et les artistes du village, l’exposition dédiée au format de dix centimètres de côté ne rassemble alors qu’une dizaine d’artistes. Son succès est fulgurant et la limite est aujourd’hui fixée à 200 participants. Cette exposition est une véritable installation en soit et permet de juxtaposer des œuvres d’artistes amateurs et des œuvres d’artistes accomplis. Il s’agit donc du prétexte idéal pour certains de montrer pour la première fois leur travail, alors que pour d’autres, il s’agit de l’exercice aussi difficile qu’intéressant qu’est la miniature. Le format étant réduit, les œuvres alors en vente sont donc très accessibles et permettent à tout un chacun de pouvoir acheter de l’art. L’exposition est très largement visitée, ce sont plus de deux-mille visiteurs chaque année qui franchissent le seuil de la Galerie du Philosophe pour venir voir les deux-mille cinq-cents petits tableaux. En plus des amateurs d’art et des curieux, l’association accueille de nombreux groupes, majoritairement des scolaires qui, grâce aux médiateurs culturels complètent leur visite par des rencontres avec les artistes locaux.
À la suite de ces deux mois d’exposition, nous organisons avec les écoles de la communauté de commune les Cents Centimètres Carrés Scolaires. L’occasion d’initier les plus jeunes à l’art et de leurs permettre de rentrer sans à priori dans un lieu de diffusion artistique. Les œuvres des élèves, réalisées lors d’ateliers en collaboration avec les enseignants, sont donc exposées pendant un mois à la place de celles des adultes.
De tentoonstelling‘Miniatura’ is een “ontmoeting-rencontre”tussen twee Belgischeen twee Franse kunstenaars.Deze vierkunstenaars hebben één ding gemeen: ze bewandelen een eigenzinnig pad in hun levensloop en artistieke activiteit.
Elke Trittel (Fr) neemt je mee in een fantastische wereld, die bevolkt is met allerlei wezens, een neerslag van haar vele werftochten over de ganse wereld.Haar werk is opvallendkleurrijk,zelfs wanneer ze in zwart en wit werkt. Er valt voortdurend watnieuwste ontdekken.
Katy Foures(Fr)haalt haar inspiratie volledig uithaar verwondering voorde natuur.Met een groteliefde voor bomen heeft ze een breed paletin aardkleurenom dit weer te geven.Haar oeuvre zit vol details,doorhetgebruik vanverschillende techniekenen natuurlijkematerialen.
Anne Brems(Be)zet eenmens en zijn omgevingneer.Haar kunstbeweegtin een magischnostalgische wereld.Met eenmix vancollage, schilderen, tekenenengrafische techniekenlegt ze de perfecte sfeer van een plek vast.
De werken van Danielle Matthys(Be)zijn geïnspireerd door het tempo waarin de wereld razendsnel verandert.De menselijke ziel blijft vaak verweesd achter.Haar werk heeft daardoor soms een bevreemdende sfeer.Haar medium isacrylverf die ze combineertmet ecoline,collage enzelfsmettextiel of draad.
De kunstenaressen kozener expliciet voor om hun werkin een veelheidop klein formaat tentoon te stellenomzoeenintimistische sfeer te creëeren die de bezoeker uitnodigt om stil te staan, te ontdekken en te genieten.
Zondag 28 april, woensdag 1 mei en zondag 5 mei, telkens tussen 10u en 18u
Gratis toegang
Kunstenaars zijn erg actief in regio Leuven. Wil je dit zelf ervaren? Kunstroute-Leuven biedt je die kans. Op zondag 28 april, woensdag 1 mei en zondag 5 mei 2019 (tussen 10u en 18u) stellen 40 kunstenaars hun atelier open. Ze ontvangen je, tonen hun werk en vertellen over de manier waarop dat tot stand komt. Je krijgt de gelegenheid om vragen te stellen en feedback te geven – een vruchtbare dialoog voor maker én kijker. Kunstroute-Leuven werkt al 14 jaar via deze formule, tot grote tevredenheid van zowel publiek als kunstenaars. LABO, intussen een vaste waarde naast Kunstroute-Leuven, is present met een eigen tentoonstelling. Klik hier voor meer info over LABO.
Anne Brems
Schilderkunst, Mixed media
Anne Brems zet de mens in een omgeving neer. Ze verbaast de toeschouwer en nodigt uit om te kijken, het werk te begrijpen en met de eigen fantasie verder in te vullen. Niet onmiddellijk herkenbare elementen suggereren een magische wereld. Experiment en een vleugje absurditeit zijn een rode draad.
Anne Brems
Lipselaan 18
3020 Winksele
0494 839 079
Originally Carl Heyward (San Francisco, California USA) and Lorna Crane (New South Wales, Australia) began a friendship and correspondence via Heyward’s KNEE(jerk) Fragmentation (mail art ) PROJECT in 2011 which consists of a one-for-one exchange of post card sized art works made exclusively for the project that has attracted over 500 artist- participants and produced over 3,000 individual art works.
The idea of fragmentation is central to his aesthetic mission in that the pieces of a culture, the debris, the archaeological products of waste and discard give evidence of culturally assigned value and worth; of conscious and sublimated preoccupations of contemporary culture and that their combination through collage, assemblage and other art methods allows a reading of place and time that includes and transcends these elements.
In expanding their inclusion of other artists in the aforementioned and similar projects, Heyward and Crane added painter Joan Stennick of San Francisco; Akiko Suzuki an award winning contemporary quilt maker from Osaka, Japan; the self-taught Vered Gersztenkorn (Tel Aiv, Israel) a painter-collagist; and Chaewon Laura Oh of Seoul, Korea a multi-media artist and accomplished portraitist, completing the GLOBAL ART PROJECT in November 2013.
How it works now
GAP ( global art project ) is a group of international artists working in various media, promoting collaboration, experimentation and mutual development of art practice .
Our work reflects individual, personal and global concerns by virtue of intention. We are creating and exhibiting work that allows the freedom of expression by the very opportunity to communicate beyond language and culture with diverse artists form all over the world while remaining open to the opportunities of the moment.
We are linked by activity in mixed-media art practice, which may be reduced to working with the materials at hand and has antecedents in collage, assemblage, found-object and related practice.
The diverse group of painters, mixed-media artists, textile, photo and collage practitioners share a common interest in what they term FRAGMENTATION: the taking of disparate elements (FRAGS) not ordinarily associated with art practice and combining them with creative passion, inventive ingenuity and above all, a belief in the democratization of the art process from inception to execution to presentation to acquisition.
GAP collaborative activity is a vehicle for stimulation and enhanced creative discovery having experienced the rewards of group interaction and the illuminating effect in enhancing personal practice.
Académie des Beaux-Arts de Namur: Atelier pluridisciplinaire, filière de qualification. Sophie Lestrate SLAC Stedelijke Academie De Lei, Leuven: Middelbare Graad, Katrin Bosmans
Oil painting technique: classes and work at the studio of Jef Bertels
Drawing classes Jef bertels and Nina Stoupina
Mixed Media Techniques: class of Nina Stoupina Wisper, Leuven, classes of Liesbet Verschueren:
Kunstwerk(t): E-atelier jaarreeks (2006-2007) and E-werkplaats (2008-2009)
Batik, Aquarel; Nyoman Suradnya, Ubud, Bali (2005, 2009)
All kind of creative activities has been always been an important aspect of my life. Music, word and visual art were an essential part of our family life and personal education.
Playing violin, writing, weaving, making contemporary lace… during a certain period I have been actively performing it.
In my childhood, visual art, especially painting, seemed to be the exclusive activity of my grandfather, Joseph Brems. Most of his paintings were stills and landscapes, following the tradition of his ancestors. Due to the fact my grandfather passed away at the beginning of world war II, for me as a kid it was something magical to watch the house full of paintings and art supplies on the attic.
Although music was my first love, after being seriously ill, painting became the most important creative activity.
As a developmental psychologist, family therapist and teacher, all kind of human expressions were fascinating. I finished my master studies and postgraduate programs at the University of Leuven, Belgium. The more I worked in that domain, the more I found it interesting and challenging. But always there was the little voice of art in there and I used my creativity in therapy, teaching. Long before art therapy was recognised as a separate discipline, I was one of those psychologists who studied the analysis of children’s drawings, Outsider Art and I tried out the integration of Art in psychological therapy and guidance.
Later on I found joy and satisfaction in art school. As well in the years at the SLAC in Leuven, as in the Académie des Beaux Arts de Namur. Curious and eager to learn, I studied in the studio of Jef Bertels (Belgium), Nina Stupina (Belgium), Nyoman Suradnya (Indonesia) and followed workshops wherever I had the possibility, also online: MOOC (Italy), Nancy Hillis (USA), … Searching for my own artistic language, every method and technique is interesting to me.
I feel grateful of all the artists who made time for me to talk about art, show me their techniques and who encouraged me on my ongoing journey to become an artist.