JAN DE VLIEGHER

Belgian painter Jan De Vliegher is known for his paintings in which colour and composition take precedent over subject matter. De Vliegher captures his subjects with vigorous brushwork working alla prima, wet paint on wet paint to achieve a sense of vitalized reality. The resulting effect is that his works appear to capture a moment in transition, a brief and fleeting moment in time. Jan De Vliegher lives and works in Bruges, Belgium. The artist received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten Sint-Lucas Ghent, in Belgium, in 1986. He has exhibited extensively in New York and Europe including Knokke, Belgium; Venice, Italy; Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany and more recently in New Zealand. Gow Langsford first showed De Vliegher’s work in 2014 and has represented him since.