Pattyn Brigitte

Brigitte Pattijn is a Belgian artist, born in Roeselare in 1961. She is a painter and studied visual arts education in Bruges and Monumental Arts at the Higher Sint-Lucas Institute in Ghent. She also obtained a teaching degree in visual arts and works as a teacher of plastic arts.

Brigitte Pattijn works with acrylic paint and pigment on canvas, and also uses mixed media techniques incorporating paper, ink, charcoal, and wax. Her paintings are lyrically abstract and can be read as symbolic impressions of form and color. The surfaces of her works function as mental spaces, often marked by signs, borders, fleeting shape sketches, or letter-like characters. The square is a recurring motif, as are the themes of life and death.

From the press: “B.P.’s paintings speak of emotion and dynamism, of energy and expression through signs and symbols,” and “B.P. invites us to intuitively reflect on humanity and beauty, which, despite the world’s tragedies, continue to endure within ourselves.”

Her inspiration comes from travel, landscapes, complex realities, and also from music by Philip Glass and the proverbs of Ben Okri. Her work reflects a process of transformation from chaos to order, marked by a poetic, spiritual, and ritual sensitivity.

In 2005, her work was included in the collection of Kunst in Huis, the Flemish art lending service. (Piron, online sources, BT)