Bart Persoons
Member since 2021
3071 Erps-Kwerps, Belgium

° Leuven, 1967

Married to Inge Moeyersons, 4 children (Julie, Max, Marie, Emma)

Artistic, self-taught but enjoying the touch of oilpaint on a linen canvas

Life motto:  "There is a time for everything"

Bart Persoons lives and works in Erps-Kwerps, 16 km from Brussels, the capital of Europe.  Bart is a painter who, at first sight, creates abstract, colourful canvases with a simple signature, i.e. hundreds to thousands of small, vertical stripes.

Why did Bart to create those unique artworks ? Because his head was full, full of stimuli, full of new encounters, full of stuff. He tried to slow down again, to enjoy the way of a slow process. In our society, people are used to have everything instantly. Bart tries to give people slowness in their lifes. So, Bart has found a way to bring peace of mind back into his life by applying small stripes to the canvas in a very ordered, harmonious and structured manner. As such, he only makes works for himself. Many viewers, however, feel the same pressure in their heads and fall into a kind of trance of calm by looking at Bart's works.

The result is a world that he has appropriately named 'The Little People'. Each little stripe represents a human being in full abstraction. 

The slow process of creation and construction is crucial in the artist's work. He wants to take viewers along into that slow process and give them an insight into the fact that the "instant" society in which we live today creates immense pressure. Accepting slowness constitutes an important part of the work. 

Produced slowly with oil paint, all the works display a high degree of order, structure and focus. The impasto technique confers depth and emphasizes the purity of the paint.

 Specifications of the artworks:

  • The works are made on professional, linen canvas, Universal 661 Professional linen, back side stapled
  • Oil paint: in particular Winsor& Newton (Artists’ oil colour), Rembrandt (Artists’ quality), Mussini

Instagram:  bart_persoons