Curriculum Vitae

Summary of Qualifications

Education

2011 - 2012 Artesis Hogeschool
Master restoration/conservation (paintings)
Magna cum laude
Antwerp (BE)
2008 - 2011 Artesis Hogeschool
Bachelor restoration/conservation (paintings)
Magna cum laude
Antwerp (BE)

Additional Courses

2020 Media Training (Whyte) Antwerp (BE)
2019 Cremonesi Aquis cleaning workshop Antwerp (BE)
2013 Charles H. Cecil Studio
Portrait painting (two week course)
Florence (IT)
2011 ICWL (International Conservation Workshop Lopud) Lopud (CRO)
2011 Angel Academy of Art
Painting the Live Model (two week course)
Florence (IT)
2009 - 2010 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, evening classes
Figure drawing
Antwerp (BE)
2002 - 2010 Private studio Maarten Boffé
Still life and portrait painting in oil (weekend course)
Antwerp (BE)
2006 Vlaams ICT-attest (VIA) Herentals (BE)

Experience

2016-2020 The Phoebus Foundation
Head of the conservation studios
Antwerp (BE)
2014-2016 Hamilton Kerr Institute
Funded intern Restoration/Conservation easel paintings
Cambridge (UK)
2014 Freelance Restorer / Painter
Projects for private collectors and museums
Antwerp (BE)
2012 - 2014 Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Department collection management and restoration studio
Antwerp (BE)
2012 Museum Vleeshuis
Conservation treatment of polychrome objects
and paintings (one month, summer job)
Antwerp (BE)
2012 Assisting restoration of monumental, historical theatre decors Kortrijk (BE)
2011 Rockox Restoration Bvba
Private restoration studio (one month, summer job)
Schoten (BE)
2011 Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Internship
Antwerp (BE)
2009 - 2010 House of Porters
Decoration of interiors (one month, summer job)
Antwerp (BE)

Selected Restoration Projects

2020-2022 The Phoebus Foundation
Restoration Treatment
Pre-Eyckian painter, Altarpiece Virgin Mary, 15th century
Antwerp (BE)
2020 The Phoebus Foundation
Restoration Treatment
A. Mor, Portrait of Jacopo da Trezzo, 16th century
Antwerp (BE)
2020 The Phoebus Foundation
Restoration Treatment
P.P. Rubens, sketch of Saint-Margaret, 1620
Antwerp (BE)
2018-2020 The Phoebus Foundation
Restoration Treatment
G. Van der Weyden; Dymphna Altarpiece, 1505
Antwerp (BE)
2017 The Phoebus Foundation
Restoration Treatment
Michaelina Wautier: tronie, 17th century
Antwerp (BE)
2017 The Phoebus Foundation
Restoration Treatment
J. Jordaens: Philemon and Baucis, 17th century
Antwerp (BE)
2017 The Phoebus Foundation
Restoration Treatment
Gustave Van De Woestyne: Het Wachten, 1925
Antwerp (BE)
2017 The Phoebus Foundation
Restauration and conservation
Work on loan, exhibitions OER
Antwerp (BE)
2016 The Phoebus Foundation
Founder of the conservation studios
Antwerp (BE)
2016 Hamilton Kerr Institute
Restoration treatment and technical research
Italian school, Virgin and child, 14th century
Cambridge (UK)
2016 Hamilton Kerr Institute
In situ works
Weston Park, Shropshire
Cambridge (UK)
2015 Hamilton Kerr Institute
Minimal restoration treatment and research
Cliveden House Cassone N.T., 15th and 19th century
Cambridge (UK)
2015 Hamilton Kerr Institute
Restoration Treatment
P.P.Rubens; head of St John the Baptist, 17th century
Cambridge (UK)
2015 Hamilton Kerr Institute
In situ works
Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Cambridge (UK)
2014 Hamilton Kerr Institute
Restoration treatment
Hendrik de Fromantiou, Vase of flowers, 17th century
Cambridge (UK)
2014 Hamilton Kerr Institute
Restoration treatment
Jan van de Cappelle (atr.), seascape, 17th century
Cambridge (UK)
2014 Hamilton Kerr Institute
Restoration treatment
Bonaventura Peeters I, seascape, 17th century
Cambridge (UK)
2014 Private collection
Restoration treatment
Anonymous Dutch painter, Roman Landscape, 17th century
Antwerp (BE)
2014 Dierckx-Leys & cie bank
Conservation treatment
Croegaert-Van Bree, Roadstead of Antwerp, 19th century
Antwerp (BE)
2014 Rijksmuseum Twenthe
Installation exhibition Rubens, Van Dyck en Jordaens www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl
Enschede (NL)
2013 Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Restoration and historical research (KMSKA inv.1062)
Edgard Farasyn, The old fishing mine, 1883
Antwerp (BE)
2013 Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Condition check of paintings in monumental entrance hall
Nicaise De Keyser, Fame of the Antwerp School, 1872
Antwerp (BE)
2013 Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Assisting installation exhibition Happy Birthday dear Academy
MAS, Museum aan de Stroom
Antwerp (BE)
2013 Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Assistant collection management
KMSKA-depot, transport and registration of art works
Antwerp (BE)

Publications

Phoebus Focus XIX 2020
Studie van een jonge vrouw; Een bijzondere blik in het atelier van Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689)
Collaborator Katrijn Van Bragt

Zot van Dimpna: Acht panelen vol passie, lef en rebellie 2020

Catalogue essay: From Memling to Rubens 2020

Catalogue essay: Blind Date, portretten met blikken en blozen 2020
Image Building: Het heersersportret in de Lage Landen (1450-1650)

Phoebus Focus VI 2018 (second print 2019)
Vaas met rozen, tulpen en narcissen; Daniel Seghers, fictie als realiteit

Phoebus Focus I 2017 (second print 2019)
Sint-Lukas schildert de Madonna; het verhaal van een bijzonder motief
Collaborator Niels Schalley

Catalogue essay: OER: de wortels van Vlaanderen 2017
Voorbij het oppervlak: de kunst van Gustave Van De Woestyne

Hamilton Kerr Bulletin 2016
Daniel Seghers: Phoenix of Flowerpainters

Catalogue essay Het Gulden Cabinet Rockoxhuis Museum 2015
Brueghel, Seghers en de Heem: De techniek van bloemschilders uit het zeventiende-eeuwse Antwerpen

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, 2014, Augustus – September.
Farasyn: een groot geval van de oude Antwerpse vischmarkt
Collaborator Siska Beele (KMSKA)

CeROArt (En ligne) 2013
Convex pillar paintings in church interiors: context, materials and conservation Problems
http://ceroart.revues.org/3229

Website KMSKA research, 2013
De achterzijde belicht: Heilige Augustinus van Hippo wast de voeten van Christus door Theodoor Rombouts
www.kmska.be/export/sites/kmska/content/Documents/Onderzoek/Onderzoeksnieuws_Achterzijdebelicht.pdf

BRK/APROA -bulletin, 2012, 4de trimester.
Convexe zuilschilderijen in kerkinterieurs; studie naar een bijzonder schilderijtype
Tableaux convexes pour colonnes dans les intérieurs d’églises ; étude d’un type particulier de tableaux
http://www.aproa-brk.org/uploads/bulletins/BULLETIN4-12COUL.pdf

Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen, 2012, december – januari.
Contribution to OCMW COLLECTIES; waardevol erfgoed van eeuwen zorgverlening

Website Monumentale Kerken Antwerpen, 2011
Restoration and research Artesis-project Sint-Jacobskerk Antwerp
http://www.mkaweb.be/site/144.html

Speaker

2020 New York University: dep. Conservation (online)
Daniel Seghers and Jan Davidsz de Heem
2020 The Courtauld Institute (online)
Restoration of The Dimpna Altarpiece
2018 Keizerskapel Antwerpen
Daniel Seghers, fictie als realiteit
2018 Mary Kempsky Retirement celebrations, Hamilton Kerr Institute
Hidden portraits in the Dymphna Altarpiece by Goossen van der Weyden
2016 34th Gerry Hadely Conference, Cambridge University
What Lies Beneath the Surface: Dead-Colouring in the Work of Daniël Seghers and Jan Davidsz. de Heem
2016 Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Gallery talk on 40 years of HKI display; Daniel Seghers

Interviews

2020 Private Art Tours
2020 REKTO VERSO ‘De Wetenschap van het penseel’

Exhibitions and Events

2019 Baroque Revival
Solo exhibition at Lantschot Chapel
Antwerp (BE)
2017-2018 Silent Withness
Solo exhibition at HeadquARTers KTN
Antwerp (BE)
2016 Royal Society of British Artists: Mall Galleries
Final Selection with ‘Shoes in the studio’
London (UK)
2016 John Hughes Arts Festival
Group exhibition
Cambridge (UK)
2015 Queens College Art Festival
Group exhibition
Cambridge (UK)
2015 Visit of Herman Van Rompuy to the Belgian Society Oxford
Presenting a Portrait of the former President of the E.U. Council, Herman Van Rompuy
Oxford (UK)
2014 Open exhibition Royal Institute of Oil Painters: Mall Galleries
Final Selection and award with ‘Olivers Shoes’
London (UK)
2014 Competition ‘Still Life’ Avrotros
Final Selection with ‘My Schoes’
Amsterdam (NL)
2013 Zomer Expo
Gallery/auction house Campo Vlaamse Kaai
Antwerp (BE)
2011-2013 Exhibition 'Imitation'
Copy after Jan Van Eyck; Dresden Madonna
Norway, Mechelen, The Hague
2011 Portrait Miniatures
Group exhibition
Mechelen (BE)
2010 AfroFluo (Royal Academy of Fine Art)
Contributing a portrait of Emmanuel D. Dmanakarie
Antwerp (BE)
2010 Solo exhibition Malle (BE)

Awards

2014 Phyllis Roberts Award London
Open exhibition Royal Institute of Oil Painters: Mall Galleries
London (UK)

Events organiser

2016 34th Gerry Hadely Conference
Co-organiser
Cambridge (UK)
2016 BCUS Belgian Beer and Cheese tasting
Co-organiser
Cambridge (UK)

Organisations

Secretary and board member of The Phoebus Foundation kanselarij

Member of ICOM

Languages

Dutch Native language
English Fluent understanding, good writing and speaking
French Basic understanding, writing and speaking