Red Girl with Sandbag, 2026
Gerda Van Damme  

Painting : oil · 100 x 140 x 2.5 cm 39.4 x 55.1 x 1 inch

€8,500 8 500 €
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A solitary child stands amidst a rugged landscape. A vibrant red coat commands the center of the composition. This bold hue contrasts sharply with the muted ochre and grey tones of the surrounding mountains. The figure holds a heavy fabric bag. Her gaze is distant. She appears suspended between a moment of stillness and a journey. 
The oil painting blends precise figurative detail with a poetic atmosphere. There is a quiet tension in the scene. The vastness of the mountains emphasizes the vulnerability of the small subject. 
This artwork evokes a sense of estrangement and wonder. It transforms a simple portrait into a psychological study. The composition guides the eye from the intensity of the foreground to the hazy blue of the distant horizon. The painting remains a study of solitude and resilience in an expansive world.

Part of the Red Girl series and set in the desert of Tabernas, Almeria, Spain.

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Portrait

figurative

Desert

Children

Young girl

Red

Gerda Van Damme, Red Girl with Sandbag
Belgium  • 1964

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Gerda Van Damme is a Belgian visual artist working across painting, installation, video, and digital media, whose practice explores the layered territories of memory, perception, and the unseen. Her work investigates how images carry traces of lived experience—how they fracture, persist, and reassemble across time. Through subtle distortions, archival references, and a precise yet poetic visual language, Van Damme creates works that oscillate between observation and reconstruction, inviting viewers into a space where the familiar becomes quietly estranged.

Van Damme received her Painting Certificate with Great Distinction from the Académie Alphonse Darville in Charleroi (Belgium). She further refined her technical and conceptual approach through advanced workshops with a.o. Antonio López García, Andrés García Ibáñez, and Toña Gómez, deepening her engagement with observational realism, spatial ambiguity, and the psychological resonance of imagery.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States, including presentations at the Arsenale in Venice (Arte Laguna Prize, twice), HB55 Kunstfabrik in Berlin, the Undo Arts Center in Brooklyn, MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artístico in Almería,the Palacio de Viana in Cordoba, WG Gallery in Dordrecht, and multiple Belgian cultural institutions. She has been selected as a finalist for major juried competitions such as the Arte Laguna Prize, the Biennale de l'Art Pierre Paulus, the Prix des Arts Plastiques et Visuels du Waux‑hall, the MiniARTures International Contest, and the Prix de la Peinture de Woluwe Saint‑Pierre. In 2025, she received the Audience Prize and Jury Mention at the Prix des Arts Plastiques et Visuels du Waux‑hall.

Her practice has been supported by grants from the Fédération Wallonie‑Bruxelles, the Province of Hainaut, the City of Charleroi, and the Eden Cultural Center, notably for her work with the artists' collective and for the curation of contemporary art projects such as and .

Van Damme works within shifting landscapes—geographical, emotional, and mnemonic. This duality informs her sensitivity to the quiet intensities of the everyday: the overlooked, the peripheral, the nearly‑forgotten. 

Her works are held in private collections in Belgium, Spain, Germany, France, Dubai and the United States.

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