JEAN-MARIE BYTEBIER

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Solo exhibition “Nature Prescription. PaRx.” at Galerie La Forest Divonne Brussels, from September 4 to October 18, 2025.

Jean-Marie Bytebier (1963) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). He lives and works in Ghent. His painting is part of the tradition of great landscape artists, particularly Flemish, but also Italian and British. Bytebier embraces the historical legacy of this essential subject in Western art, while offering a deeply contemporary perspective: through his compositions, formats, and textures, which immerse the viewer in a space that is both familiar and mysterious, airy and floating. The large recurring white bands in his paintings emphasise the role of the painting as a “window”, although here it does not open onto a perspective, but rather onto an inner, intimate, and spiritual emotion.

Jean-Marie Bytebier won the prestigious Young Belgian Painting Award in 1988. He has exhibited, among other places, at the Abbey of Fontevraud, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Bozar), the Grand Hornu, and the Ixelles Museum which dedicated a solo exhibition to him in 2016.