BOG ART Contemporary art by Yves Bogaerts

Yves Bogaerts (born in Lommel, 1972) grew up in Mol near the Rauwse Lakes. Today, he lives and works from his studio in Ham.

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From an early age, he was obsessed with drawing and painting. Aesthetics and history were his favourite subjects at school. He caught the painting bug through his uncle John Wymans (painter and gallery owner in Ostend), who taught him the basic techniques and introduced him to the impressionism of Monet and Manet.

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Yves painted sporadically throughout his student days before throwing himself into a career in advertising. In this creative sector, he made it to ceo of DDB, one of the most creative advertising networks in the world. Under his reign, DDB became agency of the year in Belgium and won several creative awards with advertising campaigns for IKEA, Studio Brussel and Volkswagen, among others.

 

During the first corona-lockdown in 2020, he rediscovered his passion for painting and resolutely decided to devote the second half of his life to painting.

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Yves wants his works to make people happy, to amaze people, to make them experience a story. His work is accessible and should make you feel good when you look at it.

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With paint (oil paint or acrylic paint) on canvas or wood, he wants to make the simplest objects, the most ordinary things in life and from your surroundings captivating and draw attention to them.

He loves colour, is fond of blue, the sea and the sun, because of the holidays he spent for years in Provence and Ostend. He himself lived for more than a year in Cassis, an idyllic fishing village near Marseille.  He also admires the beauty, knowledge and skill of human beings, which he creatively captures with expression and feeling. His greatest passion is wine, wine tasting and, of course, drinking wine in good company. Over the last five years, Yves has only created works on the theme of wine.

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Most of all, he likes to lay down thick layers of fresh colours on canvas with painting knives or work with thick brushes on smooth wood, creating structure by applying several layers on top of each other in different thicknesses, usually with acrylic paint that dries quickly and pushes you to be energetic and lively.

 

His heroes:  Dali, Magritte, Jenkell, Koons, Newton, Davinci, Michelangelo.