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We are deeply sorry to announce that Carole Dekeijser passed away on May 2, 2008.
This brilliant contemporary painter died of lung cancer at the age of 48. She will be greatly missed.
Her paintings will be gathered in a foundation. None of them will be sold.
The funeral will take place on Saturday, May 10, in Celles-lez-Dinant (Belgium, Namur Province).

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Painter Carole Dekeijser

Chairman of "Mosan School Scola vallis et orarum Mosae".

Leading of the association "Mens-Sana".

Leading of the association "Cherchez l'Artiste".

Consellor of actions "children's.

Painter Carole Dekeijser took up simultaneously graphic arts, writing, acting, classical singing (she has a dramatic soprano voice) with the same succes, as well on the personal as the audience level.

She started her professional career as scientific designer in the department of medical research ran by Prof. Haumont at the UCL (Louvain University, Belgium).

In 1980, she took aikido classes with, as intructor, the man who will later become her husband, Michel Evrard-Thøelen.

In 1990, Carole Dekeijser worked in the biology department of the ULB (Brussels University) where she illustrated several scientific books for, among others, the neuro-psychiatric departement of the Brussels Military Hospital and the pharmaceutical company Park-Davis.

To remain closer to her family circle, she joined TTT-Styling-Design, the last of the numerous companies created by her husband, as a commercial artist and scientific designer. During that time, she decorated car bodies, illustrated books for children and gave airbrush classes to professional designers.

Along with these activities, Mr. D. Cahen, head of the Institute for Natural Sciences, asked her to illustrate a large exhibition on evolution. Its success exceeded all expectations because of the originality of the approach: mankind evolution was exclusively presented from a female point of view.

Pleased with this succesful outcome, the management asked her to take part in all the major events organized by the institute.

On her husband's request, she left the Institute in 1999 to devote herself exclusively to painting.

Thanks to her training, her career and her friends, she meets numerous scientists, philosophers and other people from various horizons with whom she shares their passions and discoveries.

The practice of aikido, aïkijutsu, bojutsu and aikiken, both Japanese martial arts, got her in touch with the ancient Asian philosophical concepts of the universe, ideas that appear to be closer and closer to the scientific "truth".

Painter Carole Dekeijser amasses documents of all kinds as reference material for her work. This insatiable analytical curiosity for all things considerably helps her attain the great rigor she longs for in the practice of her art.

However, this approach doesn't fully meet her ideals. She aspires to an art that brings a reflection similar to human sciences or even engineering.

Her permanent quiet creative drive, usually quite joyfull, finds its nourishment in her cultural and professional backgrounds. Fascinated by metaphysics, her paintings depict universes reflecting all the subjects she broaches in her discussions and her personal research.

All the paintings are made in acrylic paint

An abstract art basis of a concrete thinking

Truth has many doors

The Great Rift, or the metamorphosis ritual

Signature at the bottom of the wave

The last Journey

Self-portrait

The monkey, the wisdom or the consciousness

The ego, the id, the superego

Self-portrait

Must an artist necessarily be tormented

He is a witness of his time, as far as he shows a reality and not his delusions. The scientist tells us "how it works", the artist, like the philosopher, should tell us "how to live it".

He is a witness of his time, as far as he shows a reality and not his delusions. The scientist tells us "how it works", the artist, like the philosopher, should tell us "how to live it".

The artist engaged on this path must constantly question himself and always remain in control of his intellectual as well as technical evolution. This artist would have to make it a rule to be on the same level as the scientist, the sociologist or the philosopher. To do so, a large knowledge is needed; dedicated work is essential to reach such a technical quality that you can allow yourself to leave it to your subconscious. In addition to a testimony, he should bring answers or help find some. He is of his time, he must be in time. Could we say he is a fragment of this time If it is not today's art, let's hope it will be tomorrow's. This workshop is part of a larger project involving the foundation of a Mosan school that will bring together researchers, artists, designers, humanists and scientists from France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The purpose of this school is to offer a way of living putting together the multiple dormant human qualities hidden deep inside us.

Carole Dekeijser is in charge of Les Ateliers Mosans, a workshop gathering "demanding" artists and prospective artists.

They study basic drawing and painting techniques to free themselves from any restraint preventing them from reaching their more complex ambitions.

Located in an abbey founded around 800 AD in a town named by Romans : CELLIA And is called nowadays : CELLES One of the most beautiful villages of Wallonia and Europe In a gorgeous countryside studded with unique historical places.