Lonneville Paule

Paule Lonneville is a Belgian artist, born in Bruges in 1943. She is a painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, pastel artist, and works with mixed media. Lonneville followed economic humanities alongside drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Eeklo under the guidance of Achiel Pauwels. She pursued an academic education at Sint-Lucas in Ghent with Raf Coorevits and at the City Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent under Jan Burssens. She combined these studies with teacher training from 1962 to 1966. Until 1998, she taught visual arts at Hemelsdaele Brugge and Sint-Pietersinstituut Gent. In 1982, she became a member of C.V.K.V. 'Art Magazine "Vlaanderen" and was regularly a jury member for various art competitions. She lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem.
Her early works consisted of heavily loaded canvases with bright colors, but she soon evolved to fine, romantic acrylic drawings with hallucinatory shades. From the press: "Her creations are colored musical notes with crescendos and soft tones." She lives in her own world, a blend of poetry and imagination, where movement and rhythm are constants. In honor of her 75th birthday and her life dedicated to art, a retrospective exhibition was organized in 2023 in the Council Room and Crypt of the town hall in Sint-Martens-Latem. She is mentioned in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists III, BAS II, and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron, BT)