Ria de Henau Belgian, b. 1954

Ria de Henau lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

Light, crystallised in each of her paintings, became a key element in De Henau’s work. She brings passion and stillness together. Her works are built up meticulously layer upon layer. She experiences this approach as ‘meditative and calming’. In a quest for the essence and the soul, in her paintings she instils a variety of themes with both strength and inspiration, all expressed with delicate refinement and an eye for detail. Forgetting time and space, Ria De Henau paints worlds on an expanded scale. She highlights rich colours in a pared-down aesthetic approach as an invitation to the viewer.​