Liesbeth Willaert

Liesbeth Willaert is a Belgian artist (°1981). Ever since she was a little girl, she has been fascinated by colors and has been drawing & painting her whole life.


A radical change in her work can be seen - when she realized her dream - settling down at the Mediterranean. As an Erasmus student ba...

Liesbeth Willaert is a Belgian artist (°1981). Ever since she was a little girl, she has been fascinated by colors and has been drawing & painting her whole life.


A radical change in her work can be seen - when she realized her dream - settling down at the Mediterranean. As an Erasmus student back in 2002, Liesbeth fell in love in with the Southern vibes of Barcelona, and knew she would come back to live there once….

“The intensity of light, the hours of sun, the colour of the surrounding nature and the general way of living at the Mediterranean redefined my choice of what are to me “natural colors” and how to define a thing called “life”. Regarding Liesbeth her art, we can definitely see a use of sharper contrast and more vibrant & fluorescent colors the year when the artist settled in Barcelona.

Since then, her style progressed further and as some art critics mention, she has her very own approach to “colorful constructivism”. It’s true that geometry plays an important role in her work, but as a part of the contrast between organic, wild, uncontrolled layers and hard edged geometric shapes. As the artist says herself “It’s a dance between the organic and geometric shapes. They are two opposites, each fighting for its very own place in the painting… but only together, they give a sense of harmony and balance.”