Serge le Belge

French-speaking Belgian by birth, I’ve been living in Ireland since 1992. I am self-taught,
and I began to paint professionally in 1989, after 10 years of political activism in the radical peace movement. I started out as a silk painter, and have since expanded my range of media to all forms of painting, sculpture, street arts, scenic arts, music and poetry.
I think my work is best appreciated in informal, non-institutional settings, where I try to blur the distance between the viewer and the artwork.
My craving for collective expression flourishes in the performing arts and community-based
artistic projects, but I cherish equally the solitude of studio practice!
Given my Belgian background, I have been deeply influenced by surrealism and symbolism.
In my studio work, geometrical painting and modelling alternate with figurative representations of more realistic worlds, where open, desolate spaces constitute a perfect
background for poetic and symbolic visual compositions.

Art exhibitions

Curriculum Vitae