Dagmar Heymans

Lives and works in Dilbeek (BE)

While taking a painting course at the Academy of Anderlecht, Dagmar Heymans discovers her love for the act of painting. She quietly builds up an abstract oeuvre in which earthy tones and amorphous organic forms play the leading role.
On her canvases, the artist searches for balance in color and form. For her large canvases she uses oil paint in muted colors, sometimes combined with matter (such as fine sand) which she mixes under the paint. A reference to the earthly is here underlined not only by the color but also by the matter.
Her most recent works are small explosions of color on wooden panels. Pure pigment is applied to wood in geometric patterns after which an epoxy coating protects everything and removes the sharp edges of the wood. They are reminiscent of the works of Rothko. These small paintings can be combined to form multi-panels in which colors dialogue with each other.