Belgian abstract artist shaping hand-painted paper into quiet, tactile compositions.
Catherine Vanhullebusch (b. 1978) lives and works in Brussels. Her work explores the space between freedom and perfection, curiosity and certainty.
Trained as a psychologist, Vanhullebusch has long been fascinated by how people think, decide and contradict themselves. A self-described perfectionist, she found in painting a different way of knowing: in the studio, her hands take the lead, often understanding something before her mind does.
She paints ultra-thin Japanese paper by hand and builds each composition by folding, layering and positioning it on raw, unprimed cotton canvas, in a process led by the hand rather than by a plan.
Her work is shown internationally in exhibitions and art fairs, and is held in private collections across Europe, the United States and Asia.
She is represented by Pareit.Gallery, Knokke, and K+Y Gallery, Paris.