By
Pol Ledent
Piece description from the artist
A black silence swells at the edges of the canvas—dense, infinite, and without promise. Out of it, a fractured light emerges, hesitant and trembling, like the echo of a forgotten dawn. Creams, ochres, and faint greys unfold in layers of sediment and smoke, their texture whispering of time, erosion, and fragile endurance.
The composition feels like a landscape both remembered and erased—a place that exists only in the afterimage of memory. The pale expanse at the center seems to hover between surface and depth, its tonal vibrations suggesting mist, sand, or the slow burning of a distant horizon. Amid the abstraction, a flicker of red appears—a single pulse of life, defiant and small, like the last ember in the aftermath of something immense. It anchors the composition, a fragile heartbeat in an ocean of ruin and renewal.
Lines—jagged, wandering, almost hesitant—trace across the surface like the scars of experience, or the rhythms of thought. They seem to measure silence itself, mapping the delicate tension between chaos and order, emptiness and gesture. The painting becomes an act of listening to the invisible—to the way color breathes against darkness, to how light remembers itself after the storm has passed.
It is a meditation on contrast: the stillness of black and the restlessness of white, the slow decay of brightness, and the persistence of that single, impossible red. The work holds within it both desolation and grace, a testimony to the endurance of presence amid vanishing.
This is not merely a depiction but a sensation—
the quiet aftermath of noise,
the landscape of an emotion
long since dissolved into air.
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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