Rika Deryckere

Rika Deryckere is a figurative painter. It creates a strong work, brutal as life, without any concessions, free tone, deep and disturbing, painting a fully human, crying in a loud voice the pains and joys involved in our lives of troubled beings of flesh, swollen with desire and heavy distress, bursting with vitality and sensual charge of sorrows too.

Born in 1962 near Kortrijk in Belgium, youngest of eight children of a working class family in West Flanders, she lives in France in the Cevennes since 1994.

She had a tumultuous life that led her across Europe, North and South, Berlin and Amsterdam to Madrid and Cyprus via London and Prague. Then one day she put her bag at the foot Cévennes, St Hippolyte du Fort.

She paints mostly oils on canvas, preferably from nature, or any source that can satisfy such as drawing from life. Rika has given lectures and courses at universities in the United States, A participated in competitions, and worked tirelessly to future projects.

In engraving, lino engraving it is the present you here. The print linoleum engraving allows a gesture of liberation and flexibility of the line simply printed in black and white and allows for an image in a way simple and direct, without requiring special knowledge or sorcerers. Only have the ability to use tools To burn an image and handling of a press, which is always a pleasure, and the childlike joy of seeing what was hidden and upside down.

Benedicte Louvat

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