MICHEL CALEMBERT

Born in 1948, chartered accountant and having crossed all my professional career in the banking world, art was not the first of my concerns. I entered watercolor at the beginning of the years ' 90, by chance. Seduced by the phenomenon of fusion of pigments and helped by the fact that this technique allowed to work with a reduced material, I moved forward first of all in self-taught. I realized however quickly that a technical help would not be of excess and I followed some sporadic workshops according to my professional availability.

At the end of 1998, I discovered Roland Palmaerts's courts and became a diligent pupil both during sessions of court (Brussels, Warsage, Waremme and Liège) and during outdoor workshops (Brittany, Provence, Côte d'Azur, Dordogne, …).

I also flickered with other famous watercolorists (Odette Feller, Cao Bei An, Wen Ming Xin, Jean-Claude Chailloux, Stéphane Heurion, Annick Perreaux, Viktoria Prischedko, Ewa Karpinska, Jean-Louis Morelle, Georges Politis, Fabio Cembranelli) to take the measure of the other ways of seeing things this wonderful medium. All of them left me, each in his own style, a merry feeling of opening and generosity in the sharing.

While keeping handling essentially the landscape of atmosphere, the landscapes and flowers, I dedicate myself now to the constructed abstraction which associates the geometrical rigor based on prime numbers (3,7, ..) while favoring the flexibility of the forms and the evanescence of the colored gradations.

Member of the Aquarellistes francophones de Belgique since the creation of the association.