About

Margaux De Pauw is a painter who works with oil on canvas or paper. She paints imaginary landscapes composed from compositions she finds in everyday life. Here, direction and line play are very important. So walking, sketching and taking photos are definitely a crucial part of her creative process. For Margaux, a painting can rarely start without a colour study. For her, colour and space are enormously close. So understanding colours is essential. She often starts a painting on the ground. This way, intuition and movement can help determine the composition. While painting, Margaux constantly questions the limitations of her medium: how can you depict a space without adhering to conventions? The creation of a new painting is each time a reinvention of herself and the world. A quest to recreate a landscape in a way that breaks through space. It is important that she can put her fascination with the world onto canvas. Nature and human intervention on nature are Margaux's greatest sources of inspiration. For her, painting is a way of understanding the world.