Locked by Water I, Nils Verkaeren, 2023
Oil on canvas. From the Locked by Water series.Image courtesy of Buysse Gallery. © Nils Verkaeren.
Locked by Water I, Nils Verkaeren, 2023
Oil on canvas. From the Locked by Water series.Image courtesy of Buysse Gallery. © Nils Verkaeren.
Nils Verkaeren Belgium, b. 1980
Locked by water I, 2023
Oil on canvas
200 x 150 cm
78 3/4 x 59 in
78 3/4 x 59 in
Series: Locked by water
Locked by Water I was painted during a residency in the Almería region of southern Spain — a parched, windswept terrain where survival is written into the landscape. Marked by...
Locked by Water I was painted during a residency in the Almería region of southern Spain — a parched, windswept terrain where survival is written into the landscape. Marked by expressive impasto and tonal contrasts, the painting captures arid vegetation such as cacti and desert flora, transfigured through Verkaeren’s immersive plein air method. Rather than offering a traditional view, the canvas becomes a zone of encounter — where observation, memory, and the sun-scorched silence of the South collide.