In April 2024, I put my hands in clay for the first time. Originally, it was just a trial run. I wanted to improve my drawing skills, gain a better understanding of volumes and perspectives… and I thought sculpture could help me do that. What I hadn’t foreseen was that this discipline would absorb me completely.
I started classes at La Ligne d’horizonI had spotted this school in Brussels because of the impressive quality of the students’ work. I was blown away by their level and thought that the quality of the courses must be incredible.
Spoiler alert: I wasn’t wrong! Annabelle Hyvrier’s teaching approach is as rigorous as it is caring. She pushes everyone to evolve, to refine their outlook, to work with exacting standards, but always in an atmosphere of listening. Thanks to her, I progressed much faster than I could have imagined.
I have very little patience when it comes to finishing a drawing, but I was surprised to discover that I could spend more than 50 hours on a sculpture project without ever getting bored. There’s something meditative in the act of sculpting. Working with your hands, shaping the material, feeling the textures… it’s a silent language, a form of intimacy between yourself and the work.
I find that we often neglect the touch in our society. With sculpture, we put it back at the heart of the process. We observe, of course, but we also feel. You experience the material. And that changes everything.
As in my painting, my sculptural work is strongly linked to the inner self. inner selfpsychological psychological mechanisms and the things we don’t show. My sculptures speak of what springs from the subconscious, the invisible, dreams, thoughts and emotions that run through us.
The first sculpture I’ve almost finished – it’s currently at the foundry to be cast in bronze (yes, class!) – is a double face. One is calm, composed, almost smooth. The other is screaming. This contrast represents what I show the world and what I live inside my anxieties, my fears, my angers. It’s a form of self-portraiture, raw and honest, unvarnished.
My second sculpture, still in progress (it will be enamelled in the autumn), shows a head head from which rise organic formslike flames or roots. She embodies constant flow of thoughts, dreams, ideas and memories, but also of anxieties and darker fragments. It’s a fertile chaos, an elusive whirlpool that, paradoxically, refocuses me when I model it.
I don’t sell my sculptures in my online store for one simple reason: they are fragileThey’re often heavy, and need special care when being transported. If a work of art catches your eye, you can always contact me. contact us directly. Sculpture sales will be direct, with personalized follow-up.
Today, sculpture has become a new way of expressing my emotions, my experiences and my artistic obsessions. It’s a natural extension of my pictorial work. I like to mix abstraction with realistic elements, to venture into surrealism, and above all to create works that speak of human beings – in all their complexity, paradoxes and silences.
I had no idea that clay would become such an inner playground, and yet… here I am, deeply attached to this practice. And I still have plenty of projects in mind.
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Each canvas is unique, created to evoke emotions and tell a personal story.
