CLEM PELTIER

BEHIND THE CANVAS

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First phase: Collecting ideas

• The origin and symbols of script, Akkadian epigraphy and the decypherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
  
  
• The Old Testament
  
  
• Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Attali, ...
  
  
• Travel observations
  
  
• News and events

Spring 2010



ARTISTS IN THE ABBEY

Inauguration: Friday April 9th 7pm

Exhibition: April 10th-25th

Venue: Abdij van Dieleghem
Tiebackxstraat 14
1090 Brussels



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Second phase: Research

• As an artist my thinking process tends to be iterative and recursive rather than linear.
  
  
• It includes suprarational as well as rational inputs, creative and uncommon observations, non-searched findings.
  
  
• Metaphores and dreams play an important role.

Third phase: Sketching

• Studio sketching of nude and non-nude models.
  
  
• Outdoor sketching of landscapes, horses, ...

Fourth phase: Painting

• I’ve spend a large part of my life studying and applying a wide variety of techniques. I still experiment with new techniques all the time.
  
  
• I’ve always considered myself a pupil of the great Flemish masters; Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Adriaen Brouwer, .... The fact that I live and work in the same region as they did only strengthens that feeling. I use many of their techniques for my oil on canvas paintings.

Fifth phase: Finished work

• Making abstract thought visible.
  
  
• In the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the musical and the dramatic element intertwine. "Orpheus struck such harmonies on his sweet lyre that trees came up the hill and surrounded him."