Tom Van de Wouwer
b. Kapellen, Belgium 1979
Currently residing in Opwijk, Belgium
Education
2008 Ted Seth Jacobs intensive portrait painting program, BACAA, Belmont CA, USA.
2008 Alternate student, The Ryder studio, Santa Fe NM, USA
2007 Figure drawing intensive, Gericault Studio, Paris, France.
2007 Classical figure drawing & painting, Studio Escalier, Argenton Chateau, France.
2006 Independent studies & museum copying, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA,
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp & MFA, Ghent.
2005 Conceptart.org workshop, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Conceptart.org workshop, Wackers Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002-2004 Rits, Brussels
1999-2001 The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
1994-1998 St.Lucas, Antwerp, Belgium
Exhibitions
2009 "Cityscapes", Down to Art gallery, Gent, Belgium
2009 Open Art fair, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2009 “Summer Collection” , Art Mix gallery, Antwerp, Belgium,
2008 “About Beauty" , Framing gallery, Hawthorne New York, USA
2008 “Beauty in motion” , Nicu's Spoon Theater, New York city, USA
Awards & Honors
2008 "Waterway Fellowship” for artistic merit, Studio Escalier, France
1994 Caran d' Ache award finalist
Instruction
2009 CC de Vrije Ateliers, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Workshops & Lectures
2008 CC de Vrije Ateliers, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, workshop Alla prima portrait painting.
2008 "Light as a guiding principle in Old Master works" Onze-Lieve-Vrouwen-Instituut, Boom,
Belgium