Carole Dekeijser

Painter Carole Dekeijser took up simultaneously graphic arts, writing, acting, classical singing (she has a dramatic soprano voice) with the same succes, as well on the personal as the audience level.

 

She started her professional career as scientific designer in the department of medical research ran by Prof. Haumont at the UCL (Louvain University, Belgium).

In 1980, she took aikido classes with, as intructor, the man who will later become her husband, Michel Evrard-Thøelen.

 

In 1990, Carole Dekeijser worked in the biology department of the ULB (Brussels University) where she illustrated several scientific books for, among others, the neuro-psychiatric departement of the Brussels Military Hospital and the pharmaceutical company Park-Davis.

 

To remain closer to her family circle, she joined TTT-Styling-Design, the last of the numerous companies created by her husband, as a commercial artist and scientific designer. During that time, she decorated car bodies, illustrated books for children and gave airbrush classes to professional designers.

Along with these activities, Mr. D. Cahen, head of the Institute for Natural Sciences, asked her to illustrate a large exhibition on evolution. Its success exceeded all expectations because of the originality of the approach: mankind evolution was exclusively presented from a female point of view.

 

Pleased with this succesful outcome, the management asked her to take part in all the major events organized by the institute.

On her husband's request, she left the Institute in 1999 to devote herself exclusively to painting.

Thanks to her training, her career and her friends, she meets numerous scientists, philosophers and other people from various horizons with whom she shares their passions and discoveries.

The practice of aikido, aïkijutsu, bojutsu and aikiken, both Japanese martial arts, got her in touch with the ancient Asian philosophical concepts of the universe, ideas that appear to be closer and closer to the scientific "truth".

 

Painter Carole Dekeijser amasses documents of all kinds as reference material for her work. This insatiable analytical curiosity for all things considerably helps her attain the great rigor she longs for in the practice of her art.

However, this approach doesn't fully meet her ideals. She aspires to an art that brings a reflection similar to human sciences or even engineering.

Her permanent quiet creative drive, usually quite joyfull, finds its nourishment in her cultural and professional backgrounds. Fascinated by metaphysics, her paintings depict universes reflecting all the subjects she broaches in her discussions and her personal research.

 

All the paintings are made in acrylic paint