Daniel Storms, a Belgian brutalist painter exploring architectural memory in contemporary painting
CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION:
13.02 - 08.03 :
Hugallan galerie
Grand-rue 22, 6760 Virton, Belgium
Daniel Storms is a Belgian brutalist abstract painter working at the intersection of architecture, silence, and memory.
Based in Ronse-Belgium, he investigates the emotional residue of urban mass, what remains after noise.
Storms does not paint cities; he constructs them. Through layered surfaces, controlled fractures, and restrained palettes, his paintings echo the weight of modernist architecture.
Influenced by the monumental presence of the Barbican Centre and the radical housing vision of Cité Radieuse, his work engages in a dialogue with 20th-century architectural thought while remaining distinctly contemporary.
Concrete, tension, erosion, and balance form the vocabulary of his canvases.
Storms’ recent exhibitions across the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands mark a shift toward increasingly architectural compositions: heavier forms, sharper divisions, and a heightened awareness of spatial rhythm.
Daniel continues to explore a singular question: how can painting carry the weight of architecture, and still remain quiet?
My Portfolio
The other half L&R
Size : 120 cm x 140 cm each, Year : 2025, I feel light, no city life pressure, the colours came naturally. '“Structuur zonder...
L'espace contrôlé
year : 2026 Size : 160cm x 140cm This space is built, not found. A warm block insists on existing inside a colder order: not as...
La ville tient encore
Year : 2026 Size : 140cm x 120cm The city has been pushed, bent, tested. Its surfaces show stress, its angles refuse comfort. Nothing is...
ce qui reste
year : 2025 Size : 140cm x 120cm Blocks rise and overlap, not to dominate, but to coexist. Dark masses carry weight and memory, while...
Mirroir brut
Size : 160 cm x 140 cm Year : 2025 this work captivates my views on big cities perfectly. “Le brutalisme en peinture n’est pas un...
ce que la ville garde pour elle
year : 2026 Size : 100cm x 100cm The city never says everything. It layers silence over silence, hides warmth behind concrete...
Architecture du silence
year : 2026 size : 100cm x 100cm This painting feels like a room built after everything unnecessary has been removed. Walls, corners...
Luxembourg fragments
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 This painting feels like walking through Luxembourg City at dawn … before the commuters arrive, before...
A dialogue with a brutalist city
Year : 2024 Size : 100cm x 100cm Part of the series inspired by my 4 years living in the centre of London “When I paint brutalist work...
fissure
Size : 160 cm x 140 cm Year : 2025 A powerful monochrome piece breathing a metropolitan, All with lots of layers and a striking dramatic...
Form after impact
Year : 2025 Size : 140cm x 120cm Le choc a déjà eu lieu. Ce qui reste, ce sont des lignes déplacées, des masses resserrées, une...
Cite radieuse
Size : 160 cm x 140 cm Year : 2025 “La composition s’inspire de l’architecture : des formes se bloquent, des masses s’entrechoquent.”
The decay of brutalist city
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm year : 2025 Part of a series I made, based on my time living in London. “My work reflects the weight of cities —...
Copenhagen 606
Year : 2025 Size : 140cm x 120cm Inside the quiet geometry of Room 606 of the SAS Royal hotel in Copenhagen, designed by Arne Jacobsen...
Betonhart
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 “Ik schilder steden zoals ik mensen zie: Soms gebroken en gelaagd, maar steeds vol leven"
The weight of red
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 "not pictures of the world, but foundations of its silence"
What remains unsaid
Size : 120cm x 140cm Year : 2025 The LEFT part of a Diptych (The right part is called 'Traces of stillness') Size : 120cm x 140cm Year...
Traces of stillness
Size : 120cm x 140cm Year : 2025 The RIGHT part of a Diptych (The left part is called 'What remains unsaid') Size : 120cm x 140cm Year...
ce qui tient (left) & sans bruit (right)
year : 2026 Size : 100cm x 100cm each Ce qui tient: Dans Ce qui tient, la ville ne s’effondre pas. Elle résiste. Sous les couches...
Fragments of silence
Size : 80 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 Geometry as memory. Layers of colour hold the echoes of forgotten façades: green like oxidised metal...
Under the westway (L & R)
Year : 2025 Size : 100cm x 100cm each The left panel is the version of me that searches for quiet. The turquoise, the softer edges, the...
Work the black seam
Size : 50 cm X 80 cm Year : 2024 Inspired by Sting's 'We Work The Black Seam' song written in 1985. "This place has changed for...
Silence vertical
Year : 2025 Diptych : 80cm x 100cm & 100cm x 100cm Dans ce diptyque, la géométrie devient émotion. Deux toiles dialoguent dans le...
Periferie
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 More chaos, more colour, more passion. “Mijn werk tracht de ademhaling van de stad te vangen : zwaar...
emerald city
Size : 140 cm x 120 cm Year : 2025 One of the paintings I made when returning to the Belgian countryside - an urban influence, but very...
Room 606 revisited
Size : 120cm x 140cm Year : 2025 A return — not to a place, but to an atmosphere. Room 606 Revisited breathes the ghost of Arne...
spanning
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 I create a brutalist painting in 3 phases: 1. symmetry 2. add contrast 3. infuse some controlled...
Volume brut
Size : 100 cm x 150 cm Year : 2024 A multi-layered complex city view. “Je rature, je couvre, je découvre. Ce n’est jamais propre. Ce...
tussen de barsten en het licht
Size : 80 cm x 120 cm Year : 2024 Dark, cracks and contrast : my views on a brutalist city on the light playing through it. “Het...
onder de huid van de stad
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 A dramatic cityscape with lots of relief and tension between dark and light areas. “De compositie...
squelette urbain
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 This city view with the striking gold area, has a 50's vibe, which works well with the brown and grey...
Fractured calm
Size : 80 cm x 80 cm Year : 2025 selected for the exhibition : BIENNALE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN D'ARLON 2025. "I build structures of silence...
Thames reflections
Size : 80 cm x 60 cm Year : 2023 A dark impression of the Thames river meandering through London. "I don't paint what I see, only what...