Daniel Storms, Belgian brutalist painter - Raw urban abstraction
NEXT SOLO EXHIBITION:
13.02 - 08.03 :
Hugallan galerie
Grand-rue 22, 6760 Virton, Belgium
About me:
I lived in London for the last four years, and this resulted in a deep fascination with the raw beauty of brutalist architecture, which I translate onto canvas in abstract compositions.
My paintings are often layered with a monumental silence, as if built from concrete, steel, and stillness.
I work with an instinctive approach, focusing on the physical process of painting. My canvases seem to bear the scars of an inner struggle, captured through paint and structure.
Contact me for Gallery representations, exhibitions, sales or collabs.
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...
Waar ramen zwijgen - SOLD
Size : 90 cm x 90 cm Year : 2025 A unique painting combining acrylic, coloured ink and a layer of epoxy. “Brutalisme is geen stijl, maar...
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 —...
Forme Silencieuse - SOLD
Size : 160 cm x 140 cm Year : 2025 One of the 4 large works I made for my solo-exhibition 'De schoonheid van het ruwe' in De...
Betonhart
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 “Ik schilder steden zoals ik mensen zie: Soms gebroken en gelaagd, maar steeds vol leven"
Stadsruis
Size : 120 cm x 140 cm Year : 2024 A monochrome chiaroscuro piece, rich in contrast and layered tension. Its depth draws the eye into a...
De buik van de stad
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 A monochrome dark painting, with cracks and a lot of contrast. Take time to examine the painting, see...
The weight of red
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 "not pictures of the world, but foundations of its silence"
View on rainy windows - SOLD
Size : 100 cm X 100 cm Year : 2025 An abstraction of a view on a brutalist city through a rainy window. Acrylic finished with a a thin...
Growth under pressure - SOLD
Size : 100 cm X 100 cm Year : 2025 "every painting of mine carries the scars of struggle, the strength of survival"
Triptych - brutal view
Size : 100 cm x 80 cm each, Year : 2025 "I build with silence, layering walls that breathe"
Brutal view 2/3 - Part of the triptych - SOLD
Size : 100 cm x 80 cm Year : 2025 "Brutal abstraction: where hardness meets vulnerability"
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
city kintsugi
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 A city built on fractures. Concrete, brown, aged by rain and time. Its surface bears the scars of...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Architecture du silence
year : 2026 size : 100cm x 100cm This painting feels like a room built after everything unnecessary has been removed. Walls, corners...
Silence vertical
Year : 2025 Diptych : 80cm x 100cm & 100cm x 100cm Dans ce diptyque, la géométrie devient émotion. Deux toiles dialoguent dans le...
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...
Luxembourg fragments
year : 2025 size : 2025 This painting feels like walking through Luxembourg City at dawn … before the commuters arrive, before the...
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.”
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thames - SOLD
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 A minimalist view on the city of London, the Thames viewed from the south bank. “Brutalism in my work...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
London calling - SOLD
London city scape with lots of contract created by layers of acrylic paint and topped with watery coloured ink. “Brutalism in my work is...
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...
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...
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...