“Everything started with an olfactory sensation…..

“A comforting perfume of turpentine and oil paint which surrounded me as soon as Monique and I went through the door of the art academy.  As a very young child I was accompanying my eldest sister to her painting classes, thereby escaping, for a few hours.  She also used to take me to her work at the National Theatre in Brussels, where she designed costumes.  She just sat me down with some paper and fabric, in front of a cardboard stage model, and left me to have the time of my life.  Over fifty years later, after countless detours and explorations, painting and theatre are once again at the centre of my life!”