By
Pol Ledent
Piece description from the artist
This is not a painting—it is a battlefield of memory.
The canvas trembles with the echoes of unseen wars: between light and shadow, instinct and thought, form and freedom. Charcoal-black storms roll in from the edges, gnawing at pale silence with teeth of rust and blood. Ochres bloom like old wounds reopened by time, while smudges of burnt sienna speak of fire long gone cold.
You stand before a map of the intangible, where lines are not drawn—they scar. These sweeping gestures and splattered tones do not describe landscapes but inner terrain: the landscape of grief, of revelation, of resilience. Here, white does not purify—it bleeds into yellow, into flesh tones, into the trembling nerves of something once whole, now fragmented.
Lines dart across the surface like echoes of movement, memories trying to outrun forgetting. Some are scribbled in urgency, others delicately etched—each stroke a language, each smear a sigh. There's rhythm in this chaos, a terrible music composed by uncertainty, but guided by a confident hand.
Look closer: there’s a dance in the decay. The blackness does not consume, it defines. The brightness does not comfort, it exposes. This is the poetry of what cannot be said—only felt, and felt deeply.
It is both destruction and creation, scream and whisper, beginning and erosion.
After having explored European landscapes and the feamle beauty, he experienced some abstract paintings. He rapidly found the pleasure of unlimited creative power. He has really become aware that he has started a never ending journey through imagination. People are now eager to see his new visions ! My name is Pol Ledent. Thank you for visiting my portfolio. Pol Ledent was born in 1952 in Belgium. He came to painting in 1989. He started with watercolor but felt rapidly that oil painting would match his way of being. He is a self-taught painter . Nevertheless he took some drawing lessons in a Belgian academy. After taking part into numerous group exhibitions , some galleries in Belgium proposed to him to exhibit his works. Dinant, Bouillon, Brussels , Paris and Moscow in October 2006. He has already sent many paintings to various countries USA ( New-York Buffalo Broadway ) , Santa Cruz,San Diego, San Jose,Los Angeles, Florida,Miami Baton-Rouge),Seattle, grand blanc (MI), to France, to China, to Scotland, to Portugual, to Switzerland, to Australia and ………. After having explored European landscapes and the female beauty, he experienced some abstract paintings. He rapidly found the pleasure of unlimited creative power. He has really become aware that he has started a never ending journey through imagination. People are now eager to see his new visions
As a young man , he went to the University of Louvain (Belgium) where he studied Philosophy and literature !
At the age of forty he took some drawing lessons at the technical school of Dinant( Belgium) for three years
He took part in exhibitions in Paris, Brussels (2 times) , Bouillon and Dinant ( 5 times) !
Events:
Art revolution Taipei 2018
Dinant montmartre (21 times)
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