Laurent Verhaege

... I started to paint spontaneously, almost instinctively; over time and experience, my work has become better structured and it has become more precise.

Then, the color arose and said my passion for Her¡

Finally, multiple trips to Italy, Spain or the United States have made it clear to me my desires and adventures of possible expressions ...

... Very linked to the Human and his relationship with the Territory, my work revolves around the theme of individual, collective or even territorial identities.

Inhabited man is also inhabitant; thus, it shapes and deeply permeates its places of life.

My work wishes to make these exchanges, cultures discernible, through the search for and the expression of traces, imprints, thoughts, sensations and emotions .... For me, they constitute real identity signs both of man and of his "ground" " of life...

... Through the work of color, I therefore seek to "write" my sensitive and personal vision of groups of identities linked to histories and territories.

I use mainly bright colors which allow me, not to represent a reality but undoubtedly, to express my impressions as well as my sensitivity.

As for my media, they serve to amplify my use of color.

Support recovered, I also make sure to choose them authentic and full of stories ...

... I started this work with the themes of Portrait and Landscape which are for me intimately and fundamentally linked.

My recent works develop a pictorial research work based on the representation of “Reliefs”.

Through these dreamlike landscapes, dimensional regions that are both physical, psychological and spiritual, I invite thought, reverie, perhaps escape.

My work bases are often photographs gleaned or taken; they allow me to define the shapes and contours of my paintings upstream.

Still images, or even fixations of time and the moment, they give me information on individuals and their living environment or quite simply places .... They can testify to experiences, memories, or by analogy, on how the objects around us are likely to generate over time types of portraits.

The Color and the Support go in search, through my painter's gaze, of some roots of our contemporary identities ...