Salut et Bonjour,
I’m a belgian artist, born and raised in Germany, I studied Graphic design (Bachelor of Arts) at the HSRM in Wiesbaden, for the last years I also worked as an art teacher:
I began to do exhibitions and the pursuit to become an artist at the age of 25. Since then I did several solo and group exhibitions.
My goal as an artist is to reach a point, where I can not only live from it, but also give money to environmental and humanitarian organisations, to support womens rights and the survival of humanity on the planet. I want to be part of a positive societal change. Those are also my topics- besides, psychology, religion and spirituality, I think about humankind on the planet, womens rights and possible societal changes, like a better way to live with each other, sharing planet earth.
My materials do vary a lot but I mostly do a mixture between drawing (with the pencil or brush) and background paint or energetic colored strokes. At the moment I use acrylic metallic blots with a movement of one of my hands that I let flow unconciously and then develop a painting out of it. One of my favorite new things is to paint with my own menstrual blood that I let flow into the freshly sprayed metallic-colour. It©s a theme, very important to me, as a woman in society- still a taboo, but where would we talk about it other than in art?
I also always get to the human forms, the human anatomy, because I want to know what is inside, I want to go deep into the soul and the human psychology, als well as into the anatomical realities. Currently I am also doing a project, with the "Klinikum Worms" (a hospital in the city, I live) where I am doing art with the op-robot "DaVinci"
My always developing style comes out of a trying to find some kind of universal beauty, I try to let the lines flow, also the colours and I want to reach the highest aesthetic possible. I like to experiment with various materials- acrylic, pencil, ink with brush or feather, pastels, fineliner, chalk, spraycolour, blood, fruitjuices, aquarelle and I like to see, how they sometimes work together, to layer them and to see how they behave on different materials. My current favorite combination would be metallic acrylic colour, pastels and pencil/fineliner.
Weblinks
https://www.das-wormser.de/das-wormser/kulturzentrum/kulturprogramm/5371/Demut.php
https://galerie-schauraum.de/ausstellung-von-astrid-bellefroid/
https://galerie-schauraum.de/gestaltwahrnehmung-von-astrid-bellefroid/
https://buch-findr.de/buecher/demut-7/
En exposition
Kunstpreis Alzey-Worms "Rom, Wein und Worte" (2016)
Ausstellung "Grau", Heimatmuseum Gimbsheim (2017)
Einzelausstellung "Gestaltwahrnehmung", Galerie Schauraum, Worms (06.05-26.05 2017)
Einzelausstellung "One year Self-Portrait", Galerie Schauraum, Worms(19.05-02.06. 2018)
Einzelausstellung "Mandala", Optics Seel", Worms (26.5- 9.6 2018)
Einzelausstellung "Gestaltwahrnehmung oder der Schatz der Nibelungen" , Sparkasse Worms, (26.09-12.10.2018)
Einzelaustellung "Demut", Das Wormser, Worms (03.12-28.12.2018)
Einzelausstellung bei Gastro Borngolo (Dezember-Februar 2020-21)
Gruppenausstellung "Luther", mit "sola pictura" Das Wormser, Worms (29.10-31.12.2021). https://wo-magazin.de/gruppenausstellung-wormser-kuenstler-und-kuenstlerinnen-und-luther-im-wormser-kulturzentrum/?fbclid=IwAR3fb6EcUrHumbw9k51vfplTOMUoUSdN0NztDej91laTRPONnIDHHUr0QoY
Die zwei Hilden - Ein Werk-Ausstellung an der Wormser Stadtmauer, Nibelungenfestspiele + Jazzfest, Sommer 2022
Gruppenausstellung "Europa und die Europäerinnen" zur Neueröffnung der VHS Worms