Antoon Coolen short biography
A few quick facts:
- Born in Hamont, Belgium, in 1957
- Graphic training at the Academy for expressive art in Neerpelt, Belgium
- Private schooling in ceramics and painting by various artists
- Second public award: "art in the city"
- Several individual art exhibits in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Already in his youth, Antoon Coolen started to transform his emotions into vital and expressive paintings. The result is sometimes abstract, sometimes poetic or figurative.
Nevertheless, his ceramic activities take up, both in training as in his work, a very important place, if not the most important. Antoon Coolen chooses for a figurative and playful ceramics, but his work is also characterized by gloomy allusions toward society
His work can be situated in the context of figurative ceramics. Each work means for him freezing an emotion into a shape, color and matter with a strong feeling of presence and commitment.
- Born in Hamont, Belgium, in 1957
- Graphic training at the Academy for expressive art in Neerpelt, Belgium
- Private schooling in ceramics and painting by various artists
- Second public award: "art in the city"
- Several individual art exhibits in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Already in his youth, Antoon Coolen started to transform his emotions into vital and expressive paintings. The result is sometimes abstract, sometimes poetic or figurative.
Nevertheless, his ceramic activities take up, both in training as in his work, a very important place, if not the most important. Antoon Coolen chooses for a figurative and playful ceramics, but his work is also characterized by gloomy allusions toward society
His work can be situated in the context of figurative ceramics. Each work means for him freezing an emotion into a shape, color and matter with a strong feeling of presence and commitment.