Belgian artist Veerle Beckers (b. 1976 | lives and works in Ghent, Belgium) creates paintings that navigate the delicate boundary between figuration and abstraction. Trained in traditional painting techniques, fresco, and restoration, she combines technical mastery with a profound sensitivity to memory, impermanence, and the subtleties of everyday life. Her work often depicts objects, textiles, and architectural elements—rendered with precision, yet imbued with absence and intimacy.
Beckers’ studio functions as both laboratory and archive, where clippings, photographs, and fragments of her artistic universe converge, informing her compositional choices and visual language. Her practice emphasizes layering—both materially, with pigments and gesso, and conceptually, with histories, associations, and fleeting moments—creating images that are at once familiar and elusive. Across her oeuvre, she seeks immediacy and resonance, translating ephemeral experiences into a language of color, texture, and form.