I was born in Brussels in 1963.  I am an only child and was surrounded by my parents and my grandmother on my father side.  She was living in a small flat on the third floor in an old house.  She had been a milliner and her world was full of hat-blocks, pieces of fabric and furs.

I was spending my leisure time drawing, pottering or looking at my grandmother and her sewing machine.  I would have liked to draw this place as well as the primary school of the Ponds of Ixelles with its huge covered playground topped with a glass-roof.

My father, who was an advertising drawer by trade, was also an amateur artist. He therefore encouraged me to improve my talents in drawing and painting.

After graduating from secondary school I succeeded the entrance examination at La Cambre (ENSAV – Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels) in Brussels and I attended there the drawing classes in Pierre LAHAUT's workshop as well as several trainings in painting directed by Roger DUDANT.

When visiting museums and exhibitions I discovered fabulous painters such as HOPPER, Antonio LOPEZ GARCIA, painters who gave me the wish to surpass myself.

My work, mainly pastel and also oil-painting, can be considered as realistic. My favourite subjects have been the piers in Oostende, and then some Brussels sites: the old fabric shop "A la Tentation", The Wine Palace, the station of Tour et Taxis, urban scenes.

Then I had the idea to integrate machines in space, therefore my interest in the Wielemans Ceuppens breweries. I felt a real pleasure in drawing the metallic structure and the rusted machines, used by time and bad weather.

Recent works, always inspired by a mechanical universe, are more cross-sections of life : the workshop of a clock-maker, of an ironmonger, of a blacksmith, of a model maker, most of the craftsmen being on the verge of stopping their activities.

For these paintings as well as for the Wielemans Ceuppens breweries I had the impression to draw as in emergency, to try to go faster than time, than the man who would soon transform the site.

These works are a little the memory of our everchanging world but more than the social evidence we can see in it, what I mostly like is to render space, perspective, light playing with the characters and the objects.