Award winning Contemporary art gallery in Cranbrook, Kent

Brussels, a city renowned for its rich artistic heritage, is home to many exceptional talents, and among them is the captivating contemporary artist, Valou Kervyn. Known for her expressive, dynamic, and textured abstract paintings, Kervyn's work is an intimate journey into the intersection of emotion, material, and colour.

Her work, "Pins & Needles - rouge", is instantly recognizable due to Valou's masterful use of colour, texture and materials.

She is not content with a flat canvas; she seeks depth, vibration, and interaction. Each material is a deliberate choice, selected for its ability to "vibrate and interact with the colours." Kervyn describes her work as a layering of emotions—projecting the feelings of the moment mixed with those experienced during the canvas's construction. 

While texture provides the physical structure, colour is the lifeblood of Kervyn's work. She is fascinated by how colours can be layered to create unique and dynamic interactions. Hence the titles of her work often reflect the movement and feeling captured in the piece. Her works are a powerful blend of controlled composition and explosive, spontaneous colour—sometimes energetic and vibrant, sometimes more sedate and introspective, but always vibrant in colour. Her techniques shift and vary, guided entirely by the emotional landscape she is mapping onto the canvas.

If you appreciate contemporary art that blends raw emotion with sophisticated technique and a fascination for the physical properties of paint, then Valou Kervyn's expressive universe is one you must explore.