Exhibition « Couleurs nature et plénitude » – Béatrice Michaux – Marie Esther Verheyen – Réna Verheyen

Three perspectives, one shared artistic breath

From April 23 to May 15, « Les Écuries » will host three local artists with distinct universes. Sculptures, collages and paintings will come together in an intimate dialogue, where each work reflects a sensitive and unique relationship with materials, as well as with nature…

Béatrice Michaux: working with clay

A sculptor for over 12 years, Béatrice Michaux shapes clay with passion. After a long figurative practice, she has recently chosen to work without models, allowing a more instinctive and deeper, almost meditative expression to emerge. This search for simplicity and freedom is reflected in her works, where earth becomes breath, balance and calm. Her approach, guided by patience and the slow rhythm of gesture, embodies a quest for serenity and harmony that is immediately perceptible.

Marie Esther Verheyen: the beauty of recomposed fragments

Marie Esther Verheyen is already familiar with « Les Écuries », where she exhibited in January 2017. She now returns with her distinctive collages, born from a patient alchemy: reclaimed wood fragments, sometimes tiny, are dyed, layered and assembled through a meticulous process of deconstruction and reconstruction. From these repeated gestures emerge abstract landscapes where geometry, materials and earthly resonances intersect. Organic pigments, plays of light and shadow, and layered elements invite a double reading: the overall composition at first glance, and the finer details revealed upon closer observation.
Through this exploration of transformation and nature, she embraces a practice rooted in recycled wood and upcycling, which she regularly presents in galleries.

Réna Verheyen: the intimate geology of things

Sister of Marie Esther, Réna has developed her sense of volume and texture through unexpected paths such as creative makeup, set design and jewelry making. These experiences now feed a fully realized pictorial practice where pigments, acrylic and ink combine in a carefully balanced tension between contrast and harmony. Her inspiration comes from subtle moments of everyday life: a leaf stirred by the wind, the glow of a garden at dawn, the unexpected detail of a familiar object. From these moments arise works with mineral layers and almost architectural textures, whose surfaces seem to evolve with the light.
Presented in various contemporary art spaces, her compositions explore the meeting of raw materials, metallic reflections and intuitive chromatic expression. Each piece becomes an open territory, inviting the viewer to project their own story.