Photograph of Artist GUY OCTAAF MOREAUX
GUY OCTAAF MOREAUX
Brussels, - Belgium



Original Artworks (97)

Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Haiku Japanese Garden, 2023, Original Painting Oil, 160 x 140 cm. Artwork description: 241 One thousand shades of greenSpringy light greens with darker shades of old greensThe garden is a world Oil paint on canvas...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2023
160 x 140 cm (63.0 x 55.1 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Richard Sleeps, 2024, Original Painting Oil, 76 x 85 cm. Artwork description: 241 Richard, is the latest new member of the family. A sleeping baby gives a peaceful and happy aura.Acrylic and oilpaint on canvas. ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2024
76 x 85 cm (29.9 x 33.5 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Beachday, 2024, Original Painting Oil, 86 x 60 cm. Artwork description: 241 It was a surreal sight that day on the beach.  No pictures allowed but it was imprinted in my memory.Some might see references to two Belgian painters, and indeed I thought about them while I was taking it all in.Oil paint on canvas. Can be ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2024
86 x 60 cm (33.9 x 23.6 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Mackerel Salade, 2024, Original Painting Oil, 63 x 45 cm. Artwork description: 241 2024 is the 75th year of the disappearance of James Ensor, an important painter in the evolution of painting in Belgium.  One of his most important and certainly his biggest painting is in the Getty museum in Los Angeles. This painting is made in reference to him. , ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2024
63 x 45 cm (24.8 x 17.7 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Crows In Summer, 2023, Original Painting Oil, 120 x 81 cm. Artwork description: 241 This is the second variation on the same theme , crows.  A stylized colorful version painted in oils on canvas.  I started out deconstructing the first painting, and ended up with this.  It is a first step towards abstraction of the haiku, the crows painting.  Canvas ships in ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2023
120 x 81 cm (47.2 x 31.9 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Flower Doodle, 2023, Original Painting Oil, 38 x 45 cm. Artwork description: 241 A drawn doodle made in oil paint on stretched canvas.  It is elegant, colorful and totally abstract.Abstract flower...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2023
38 x 45 cm (15.0 x 17.7 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Spring In Halle, 2023, Original Painting Oil, 80 x 37 cm. Artwork description: 241 Blue hyacints bloom for a forthnight every month of April in forrests in central Belgium. In Halle is the most spectacular show, it is so short lived but amazingly beautiful.Oilpaint on canvas. ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2023
80 x 37 cm (31.5 x 14.6 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Haiku The Crows, 2023, Original Painting Oil, 120 x 81 cm. Artwork description: 241 It s cold and quietThe birds have leftThe crows remainedAcrylic and oil paint on canvas.Ships in a rollBirds, winter forrest, figurative, landscape...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2023
120 x 81 cm (47.2 x 31.9 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Spoonbil Lake Nakuru, 2018, Original Painting Acrylic, 59.5 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 Nakuru Lake National Park in Kenya, a beautiful spot with rhino s, flamingos etc. . . .  the spoonbill has a funny walk as it searches for food in the water turning its bill form one side to the other.Canvas on board.  Acrylic paint and charcoal. ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Acrylic Painting, 2018
59.5 x 30 cm (23.4 x 11.8 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; The Atelier, 2023, Original Painting Oil, 90 x 70 cm. Artwork description: 241 Nude model painting we do a lot in the atelier of the Academy.Acrylic and oil paint and oilcrayons on canvas. ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2023
90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.6 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Threads Of The Willow, 2018, Original Painting Oil, 140 x 90 cm. Artwork description: 241 Haiku from OmitsuraOh how green The threads of the willow Over the sliding watersOil on stretched canvas.  Canvas can be rolled for easy transport. ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2018
140 x 90 cm (55.1 x 35.4 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Ligeti S Cello Sonate, 2023, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 As abstract as music. Acrylic and oil paint on canvas...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2023
30 x 30 cm (11.8 x 11.8 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Angst, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 70 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 When desire ends, fear grows.  It is a quote from a Spanish philosopher.  The existential angst of the middle classes. . . . . . .  It is a selfportrait actually where I imagine how some people might get a deep seated fear welling up seeing the enormous moving mass of the sea....
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2022
70 x 40 cm (27.6 x 15.7 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Red And Blue, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 70 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 Red and blue, brother and sister.  Oil on canvas.  I tried to portray the personality of each of these nephews...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2022
70 x 40 cm (27.6 x 15.7 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; The Adoration Of Material, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 252 x 176 cm. Artwork description: 241 This work refers to Pieter Paul Rubenspainting The adoration of the Magi from 1624.What do we worship, adoreWhat is in the chestSome are amused, others worry. . . .Oil on canvas...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2022
252 x 176 cm (99.2 x 69.3 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Picnic In Brussels, 2022, Original Painting Oil, 153 x 153 cm. Artwork description: 241 A picnic is a happy moment with everything that surrounds this in my head.  Obviously it is a multicultural affair as this city is one of the most multicultural small cities in the world  1. 2 million inhabitants . Here I am taking advantage of the studio in ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2022
153 x 153 cm (60.2 x 60.2 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; The Absent One Covid Period, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 100 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 L absent  Late winter afternoon gives you sometimes a nostalgic feeling, even more often so in the Covid era.Oil paint on stretched canvas.  Can be shipped in a roll.Tullips, low wintersun...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2021
100 x 80 cm (39.4 x 31.5 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Rascals, 2021, Original Painting Oil, 40 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 Stan and Ferre, two of my nephews.I see other artists produce so fast, so here I painted fast and loose. It is a lot of fun to try a different approach.Oil paint on canvas board. ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2021
40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Vanitas, 2020, Original Painting Oil, 40 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 Acrylic and oil paint on stretched canvas.  Vanitas, an allegorical representation of the vacuity of human passions and activities the smart phone, money and forget- me- not flowers. ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Oil Painting, 2020
40 x 50 cm (15.7 x 19.7 inches)
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Guy Octaaf Moreaux; Shopping For A New Me, 2021, Original Painting Acrylic, 100 x 100 cm. Artwork description: 241 Shopping for a new me in Nairobi is the complete title.  Acrylic and oilpaint on stretched canvas.  I was amazed to find out how popular wigs are in Kenya.  Mostly women love to change hairstyles drastically.  A kenyan friend chose romantic, african and western styles from a ...
Guy Octaaf Moreaux
Original Acrylic Painting, 2021
100 x 100 cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches)
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Artist Statement

Since the end of August 2019 I moved back to Brussels, Belgium. The three years I spent in Kenya have been super interesting and moved me to paint my african impressions. I feel privileged to have learned so much of this wonderful part of the world which was quite foreign to me before. Life is full of emotions about people, nature, things etc...and leaving Kenya will be hard indeed.

One of the biggest luxuries in life, is to live surrounded by beauty. This is what I am trying to do. And yes one can see beauty everywhere...it is a state of mind.
Harmony is an integral part of beauty, this is what I am trying to convey in my work.
It is indeed a necessity for me to create. It has always been this way for as far as I can remember.
Not creating makes me feel empty and unfulfilled. In every day life it pervades all my actions, from cooking to finding different places to visit, walk, etc....Have a look at the furniture I created lower in my portfolio. The architects who sold my furniture were the first ones to sell my paintings.
For painting, nature inspires me a lot, many other sights or thoughts as well. If I end up painting
a landscape, a portrait or something else, it is because I felt a strong emotion and an urge to do it.
Hopefully my paintings inspire other people and radiate harmony in the home or office where they hang.

Living in Africa between 2017 and 2019 and having lived in North and South America and in northern and southern Europe, I picked up bits of cultures all over. During my stay in California I first came into close contact with asian art and philosophy which would leave a lasting mark on me. The influence from Asia was reinforced in Argentina where I took classes of japanese painting with Cristina Ishikawa. I took drawing classes and studied classical rennaisance flemish painting techniques. For the rest I am an autodidact.
The most gratifying moments in painting are those when you get into a meditative mood and when all of a sudden you get a kick out of an accident, something not planned which fits the painting perfectly. The intuition is at work and surprises the rational mind. Sometimes the painting overtakes your will and dictates colors, forms or nuances which were never thought of before.

Back in Europe now, I joined the Academy of Anderlecht Brussels. There I paint together with others, which is a new experience for me. We have teachers who give input on rare ocassions unless you ask for it. Here I try to let go and paint in ways I never or rarely did before. It is fun and I learn new things. The space available here also allowed me to paint on big canvases attached to a wall. ...