Lotte Wietendaele @ artavita

Lotte Wietendaele

Location:

Lotte Wietendaele became artistically active from an early age. She was encouraged in this by her teachers and family members at the time. During secondary school, she therefore began studying art at the Secundair Kunstinstituut in Ghent, where she was first introduced to various materials and model drawing. She graduated from this institute in 2016. Lotte then supplemented this with a higher-level year in Painting at KASK in Ghent. After a few artistic disagreements and an identity crisis, she left the path of higher education in the arts. A period of radio silence of three years followed as a time to re-evaluate. During the corona period, she rediscovered the path of art as an autodidact. She began to experiment with painting on pieces of furniture. The subjects focused on social relevance. Afterwards, Lotte was influenced by the work of Jan Van Imschoot. She was inspired by the colour palette and her work became a kind of late revival of expressionism. In her paintings, she does away with the past and tries to take the viewer into a kind of alienating world where reality and fiction meet in a cocktail of abstraction and realism. She does not avoid any surface or medium, but she clearly prefers oil on canvas. She depicts general feelings that the viewer can recognise, choosing personal subjects and portraits that are moving.

In addition to painting, Lotte also does illustrative work. Her additional training in graphic design helped her discover her developed style. Traditional techniques, often including painting, go hand in hand with computer manipulation. Photoshop appears to be an important part of combining the photos to later translate them onto canvas. Photorealism is not the goal, but rather creating an interesting image in terms of composition to look at. Lotte's illustrative work also shows her analytical merging and the importance of multicolor lines.

As part of this specialization, Lotte primarily designs artistic graphic design, such as stage posters and book covers.

Lotte Wietendaele

Portfolio:

Silence in the rush

So the parasol flew in my neighbours' garden and I was like: alright then

The floor is lava

It's all cats and cheese in Turkey, darling

Go on like this

Don't look a given horse in its beak