Agnes Maes (1942–2016, Belgium) moves between figuration and abstraction with a deeply sensual command of colour, light, and brushstroke. Trained by Roger Raveel and in regular dialogue with Raoul De Keyser, she developed a language distinctly her own — rooted in the play of light and shadow across architectural space, often enriched with Latin inscriptions which could guide or misguide the viewer's gaze and understanding. Translucent painted screens, laid over one or more passages on the canvas, draw the viewer into the space behind the image. Edith Doove called her work "grievously underrecognised"; Bert Popelier put it more bluntly: "Agnes Maes is a master."
Her work is held in numerous private collections. Public collections include Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar), Mu.ZEE (Ostend), Musée d'Ixelles (Brussels), Mudel (Deinze), the Collection of the Federal State, the Collection of the Flemish Community, Collection Nationale Bank, Collection DEXIA, The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, and Collection Centraal Beheer (Apeldoorn).