Marcel Hocq

Neo-expressionist painter, with robust balances and warm and intense colors, characters and peaceful genre scenes. Their quiet strength and the sobriety of the means of expression accentuate the poetic power ... this is, in the form of an excerpt, the definition that the biographical dictionary of Belgian artists gives of the painter Marcel Hocq.

This professional photographer, born in Boignée near Velaine-sur-Sambre, has always loved painting. Although he holds a degree in Fine Arts from Saint-Luc in Brussels, he considers that schools only give the first techniques necessary for learning art. The personality of the artist must be asserted far from any school, to avoid a standardization: "I never wanted to give any importance to my diplomas, I am in a way a self-taught". An autodidact, indeed, but not only in the field of painting: he devoted himself to photography art, he also practiced sculpture, especially that of wood or welded iron.