LINEART-VISITORS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HEART WARMING REACTIONS

It is true... the snow and slippery roads kept a lot of potential visitors from coming to Lineart.
The amount of visitors on Saturday can be compared with what normally is expected on a Friday.
Sunday was busier, although not like on a usual Lineart-Sunday (when people used to throng the fair, anyway during the last decades)
But... I spoke to a lot of visitors at the booth of Gallery ART-ist, and the reactions were more than heart warming.
I feel overwhelmed by the enthusiastic and awesome comments and the time people took to tell me about how the experience my art.
They don't know how much this means to me, but I'm very grateful for every comment and sign of appreciation.
I don't want to brag, but when people (apart from one another) tell you that your paintings are one of the most innovative they've seen on Lineart and that they are touched by the composition, dynamics and combination of colors... I can tell you from experience: it moves you.
I can feel my wings growing.

LINEART can still be visited, today and tomorrow:
Monday Dec 6. 11.00 - 10.00 pm
Tuesday Dec 7. 11.00 - 07.00 pm
I will not be attending the booth of Gallery ART-ist, but the gallery owners will give you a warm welcome.

Overall it's absolutely worthwhile to visit this fair.

Lineart
Flanders Expo
Ghent - Belgium
www.lineart.be

Opening LINEART 2010

The cold, ice and snow played spoil-sport for the opening of the 29th edition of LINEART yesterday.
Fortunately not everyone stayed at home and at one point there were a lot of people.
But on the previous openings of Lineart it was much busier.
Nevertheless... the booth of Gallery ART-ist looks great and the quality of the offered art overall on Lineart is high.

So, if you are curious take your car, or go by train, bus or tram.
Flanders Expo, Gent - Belgium (the location of Lineart) can be reached very easily by public transport.

Opening hours:

Friday Dec 3. 11.00 - 10.00 pm
Saturday Dec 4. 11.00 - 07.00 pm
Sunday Dec 5. 11.00 - 07.00 pm
Monday Dec 6. 11.00 - 10.00 pm
Tuesday Dec 7. 11.00 - 07.00 pm

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LINEART is in sight

That is why I locked myself in my studio. I'm working very hard on 2 new paintings which have to complete my exhibition at this renown international art fair.

Gallery ART-ist has a spacious booth and will present 10 to 12 of my recent paintings.

Lineart, December 2: special opening night.

December 3 until 7:

Flanders Expo, Gent - Belgium

INVITATION to Lineart 2010!

From December 2 until December 7 - 2010, my art will be presented on LINEART 2010, the international fusion art fair, in Gent, Belgium.

Gallery ART-ist, Geel - Belgium, will represent my art on the 29th edition of this renown art fair.

You are kindly invited!

I've got several free entrance tickets, so contact me if you want one.

I hope to meet you there!

Lineart 2009

Yesterday I went to visit the art fair Lineart (edition 28) in Gent, Belgium.

I've visited this fair every edition during the last 5 years.

And, fortunately, this year the quality of the presented work, overall, was great.

In my opinion too many galleries during the last few years showed a rather conservative collection of art. With conservative I mean that they chose for art from artists with the reputation of selling well. Not a lot of new things to discover for the public. I understand that galleries need to sell, but in order to keep attracting audience, they'll have to make it attractive and develop themselves, just like an artist needs to evolve. It's important to impress, to surprise, so the audience wants to come back every year and see what you present this time.

But that was then, and now we had a lot to see. I noticed that some of the artists really made great developments in their work during the last year. I met some artist-friends who were represented by a gallery and they were all very satisfied with the result of the fair. The gallery ART-ist (Geel-Belgium) I work with, was very content too.

The spirit, overall, was positive, and this is a good thing.

I really liked the new (evolved) work of Serge van de Put, Marlis Albrecht, Kalvis Zuters, Paulis Postazs and Raf Veulemans. And I loved seeing again the work of Jef Bertels, Roland Devolder, Jo Pirard, Dirk de Keyzer, and Stephane Halleux. New to me was the work of André Nadal, the works from several artists from the Ho-Gallery (Seoul), Leon Keer, CallmeFrank and I know I've forgotten some.

Afterwards I visited my dear friend in Gent, and I must say: it was a beautiful day!