// A Rose by Eva Claessens, created in 2024, is a mixed media painting that explores organic forms through the delicate use of color and line. The composition centers around a soft, abstracted rose form, with vibrant pink hues gently flowing across the canvas, evoking the petals of a flower in bloom. The sweeping brushstrokes and thin, minimal lines suggest the structure of the rose without rigid detail, giving the piece a fluid, almost ethereal quality. The natural linen canvas serves as a neutral background, enhancing the softness and subtle beauty of the pink and white tones. Claessens' approach in A Rose is both expressive and tender, inviting the viewer to feel the fragility and beauty of nature through her abstract interpretation of the floral form.
Eva Claessens (Belgium, 1971) is a contemporary artist celebrated for her exploration of the human figure through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Her work captures emotions and sensations of everyday life, often presented without framing to invite personal interpretation. Claessens has exhibited internationally, with recent shows in Los Angeles and Lisbon.
Mixed MediaMixed media refers to artwork that incorporates more than one medium within a single piece. Unlike multimedia art, which combines distinct forms of visual art and often includes elements like sound, video, or digital media, mixed media focuses on combining traditional art materials, such as paint, ink, and collage. Mixed media art allows artists to achieve a wide range of effects and textures by layering and blending different materials.
// A Rose by Eva Claessens, created in 2024, is a mixed media painting that explores organic forms through the delicate use of color and line. The composition centers around a soft, abstracted rose form, with vibrant pink hues gently flowing across the canvas, evoking the petals of a flower in bloom. The sweeping brushstrokes and thin, minimal lines suggest the structure of the rose without rigid detail, giving the piece a fluid, almost ethereal quality. The natural linen canvas serves as a neutral background, enhancing the softness and subtle beauty of the pink and white tones. Claessens' approach in A Rose is both expressive and tender, inviting the viewer to feel the fragility and beauty of nature through her abstract interpretation of the floral form.
Eva Claessens (Belgium, 1971) is a contemporary artist celebrated for her exploration of the human figure through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Her work captures emotions and sensations of everyday life, often presented without framing to invite personal interpretation. Claessens has exhibited internationally, with recent shows in Los Angeles and Lisbon.
There is a deep investigation around each piece. I always paint from real models.
- Eva Claessens
Eva Claessens is an internationally acclaimed artist whose prolific career spans more than two decades. She engages us through the human body: Her passion and love for its power and fragility are masterfully displayed in her figurative art and nude paintings. Her innovative approach to art is further characterized by the way she transposes the theme of her 2-dimensional paintings into 3-dimensional sculptures, which she then uses as a fresh canvas. Through her work she succeeds in expressing the true union between man and woman and often reminds us of the beautiful oneness of our souls. Born in Belgium in 1971, she studied at several art academies in her native province of Antwerp. At the age of eighteen she moved to Florence (Italy) where she studied at the Academia Dell’Arte and worked at the art studio of Romano Stefanelli as a model and an artist. Her work took her to the USA, Jamaica, Israel, and more recently to India. During this time she perfected her use of different color techniques. She has held several individual exhibitions and participated in others all across Europe, South America, and Asia. Her work has been commissioned by private collections and international companies around the world. At present she lives and works in Uruguay, South America. (Artist website)
Sometimes known as Figurativism, figurative art refers to sculptures and paintings that are clearly or specifically derived from real objects, making them representational. The term figurative art is often used in contrast to abstract art. However, since the emergence of abstract art, figurative art has come to describe any form of modern art that has strong references to the real world or actual situations.