Bosschaert Bernard

Bernard Bosschaert is a Belgian painter, born in Wervik in 1933. He is a figurative painter and is largely self-taught. He started painting at the age of 15. His subjects are (Flemish) landscapes, forest views, landscape experiences and emotions, marines and Bruges cityscapes. He uses an impressionistic touch. He is a member of the West Flemish Art Circle. Since 1960 he exhibited every year in August in the Horizon gallery in Heist and from 1991, annually in March in the Henriette Coffez gallery in Knokke. During the spring, Bosschaert is a welcome guest at 't Hof te Puttens in Lede near Aalst, where he regularly shows off his most recent oeuvre. From the press: 'Bosschaert is an extremely colour-sensitive artist, an imaginative and suggestive painter' and 'B.B. expresses himself creatively on the basis of a refined play of colours, in all tonalities, which reflect his attachment to Flemish Impressionism, but to which he manages to add a personal touch', and 'A primordial characteristic of his visual work is his distinct feeling for the material: he is an imaginative, suggestive painter who does not tell or describe, but evokes. He shows us around in a world he knows well, where he wants to give us the beauty, he shows us how peaceful and wide the Flemish land is. A region where it is good to live. Bernard Bosschaert is listed in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists iii, BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)