Artist: Roland Laermans (Tienen 1937 - 1997 Tienen)
Technique: Aquarel
State: Excellent
Signature: Signed by the Artist in front and dated
Sale with frame: Yes
Size picture (in cm): 13.4 cm x 13.4 cm
Dimensions of the work: 26 cm x 26 cm
Obtained: Private collection
Remarks: From the artist's heirs
The same motif recurs time and again in the artworks of painter Roland Laermans: a small head, tender and recognizable, that appears as a common thread throughout his oeuvre. Behind this recurring image lies a deeply personal and poignant story.
After the stillbirth of their child, the artist and his wife had to process the painful news that there would be no more children. A loss that deeply affected them both and could not be put into words.
For Roland Laermans, painting became a way to cope with this grief. In every little head he put on canvas, he tried to imagine what his child would have looked like at the age it would have reached by now. Thus, the brush became an instrument of mourning, and every artwork a silent, loving attempt to give a place to a loss.
The little heads are therefore not merely an artistic trademark — they are a lasting memory, painted time and again with the same gentle devotion with which a parent thinks of their child.
