DOMINIQUE DE BELLEFROID

BIOGRAPHY

Dominique de Bellefroid is a Belgian visual artist whose work draws inspiration from metaphysics and quantum theory. Central to her practice is the notion of fundamental interconnection within the universe, what she describes as “the underlying weave” that binds all things together. She brings this concept to life through her use of textiles, threads, and raw linen that she paints, allowing the literal weave of the material to become an active participant in her compositions.

De Bellefroid’s method is shaped by a long-standing meditative practice that emphasizes presence, immanation, and impulse over predetermined form. Drawing on ideas such as string theory and the curvature of spacetime, she applies oil paint and oil sticks as part of an interconnected rhythm, where movement, tension, and fusion mirror the subtle forces shaping reality. Working on unmounted linen or canvas, unconfined by borders or precise lines, she allows color fields to emerge and intertwine with organic spontaneity. Her works are defined as much by pigments that overflow and disobey as by those that resist, developing gradually—sometimes over months—through successive layers that build depth, luminosity, and nuanced chromatic transitions.

Born in Belgium in 1966, de Bellefroid lives and works in Brussels and Provence. She studied fine arts at the Heatherley School of Art in London and trained in painting and weaving at the Constantin Meunier Academy in Brussels. Her work is further informed by studies in drawing, fashion design, ceramics, and mosaic, as well as research, after a trip to Japan, on tonal gradations and atmospheric effects in traditional woodblock printing.

De Bellefroid’s work has been exhibited in Paris, Brussels, Ghent, Waterloo, and Rhodes, with upcoming shows in Saint-Tropez and New York.

EXHIBITIONS

2025 Entanglement: Dominique de Bellefroid and Marguerite van Boetzelaer, J/M Gallery, London, England
2023 Couleur et Art figuratif, Galerie Libre Est l’Art, Paris, France
2023 Ordre implicite, Galerie Sablon d’Art, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Dominique de Bellefroid, Rhodes, Greece
2022 Charline Kervyn Contemporary Art Gallery, Gent, Belgium
2022 MEMENTO, Galerie Sablon d'Art, Brussels, Belgium
2021 WOMEN IN ART, Espace Rue Simonis 33, Ixelles, Belgium