I am a autodidactic visual artist based between Amsterdam and Antwerp. My work moves between fragility and play, using repurposed and found materials such as lost children's drawings, glass, wall paint, and waste cultures of kombucha (scoby). Through these materials I explore how memories, relationships, and vulnerable feelings can be preserved and reimagined. My process is intuitive and physical, trough experimenting with different textures i create works that shift between control and chaos, seriousness and childlike wonder. Rooted in a neurodiverse perspective, my practice reflects on family, queerness, and connection as shifting spaces rather than fixed structures. By embracing imperfections and coincidences, the works becomes an act of remembrance.

COMING UP:

23.01 Kunstfabriek rotterdam

02.02 Van Abbe Museum - bureau parso
04.09 - 03.10 space-collection - coolcity2000

le petit prinxe

BOOX.SPACE, Haarlem

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In Le Petit Prinxe, I show a visual ode to childhood's naive, unfiltered simpleness. Using reverse glass painting, a technique where marks are made blindly on the back of the surface, each piece emerges as a surprise: a conversation between the maker, the artist and its inner child, where memories materialize in delicate lines and simple bright forms.

These works are preservations: fragile feelings encased behind glass. Like Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince protecting his rose, i guard vanishing states of being, through a visual interplay of whats said and what still needs to be done.

I ask: How do we hold what slips away? When did we stop seeing stars as miracles?

T-SPACE

schoolstraat 27, 2060 Antwerpen

+32456420513

deltavmelle@gmail.com

https://ko-fi.com/ratelherbals