Belgian Artist

Art Brut, instinctive painting & fragments of thought.

Selection

Recent works and selected pieces

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The artist

Between photography, painting and poetry, I seek a common language

I studied photography before discovering in painting a freedom I could find nowhere else. Poetry naturally extended this exploration. Today, these three practices are in constant dialogue and share the same intention: to explore emotion in all its forms.

I work without sketches. Faces emerge, colours respond to one another, and words surface like fragments of thought. I like to combine techniques, materials and structures, allowing each work to find its own language.

I do not seek to represent the world as it is. I try to give form to what moves through us, to what resists words yet continues to exist.

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Portrait of Tom Colaux

Performance

When painting becomes an encounter.

I see performance as a work in its own right. I combine painting, poetry and improvisation, allowing each moment to guide the next. The audience is not watching a demonstration: it witnesses a creation taking shape in the present.

Every performance is different because no emotion ever repeats itself. It brings me back to what I have always sought: creating with sincerity, making room for the unexpected, and transforming a shared moment into a living work.

Live creation by Tom Colaux