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LIDY DE BROUWER
Lives and works in Lievegem, Belgium
www.rozengeurkwebbel.net

Lidy De Brouwer is a versatile and active artist who has earned her artwork. Examples of works like this are landscapes and nature,
place in the world of visual arts, literature and poetry. She trained but also when Lidy depicts dreams, desires for peace and equality,
at the “Academie voor Schone Kunsten” (Academy of fine arts) in the human figure and when she depicts her impression of foreign
Eeklo and at the “Hoger Instituut Sint-Lucas” in Ghent. Her mentor cultures that she encountered during her numerous travels.
was Gaspard De Vuyst. Lidy’s visual arts were exhibited at multiple Other times, Lidy opts for a softer color palette, often using soft
exhibitions in famous art galleries both in Belgium and abroad. She pastel that represents the other side of her personality. At times
also won several prizes and awards in Belgium and abroad. Lidy quite extrovert in person, we find inner peace in these works, a
has also published poetry in magazines and performs at poetry contemplation on the fragility of life, the beauty of man and nature
events and lectures. Her skills as a poet are reflected in her visual depicted in a female figure or an expanding landscape. These soft
arts as well, as they are very refined. Her visual arts reflect beauty works of art make the spectator grow quiet and allow him to slip
and emotions. away, if only for a moment, from the hard reality that so often
surrounds us. In her visual arts Lidy often opts to use the duality of
The subject of her art varies greatly but everything, no matter how black and white which leads to some impressive pieces of art.
diverse and different from the rest, shows a strong inspiration
and a wealth of ideas that perfectly matches with her personality. Her paintings and visual arts are indiscernible from her poetry, as
When Lidy’s inspired by something, she’ll process this internally she also uses her emotions, experiences and impressions to write
until she has visualized a mental image of the artwork that she can poetry, just like with her other works. They are personal outbursts
identify herself with. of emotions transferred to anyone open to beauty and feeling.
She received her training for lecture and at the music academy and
The colors she uses in her artwork are sometimes bright and studied art history at the University of Ghent. Her latest works of
colorful but Lidy makes sure they remain compatible with each poetry are “Een lint van kleuren”, “Sjansen”, and “Estafette”.
other and that the colors are in balance with the rest of the (Art critic Luc Lekens)

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