The little-known painter Ilse D’Hollander was only twenty-nine when she passed away in 1997, but during her brief career she created a significant body of landscape works of the Flemish countryside. The late Belgian artist’s estate is now represented by Victoria Miro, who have just opened an exhibition of D’Hollander’s work, running until January, presented alongside a new publication. Her body of landscapes, painted from memory, reveal an intuitive and sensual exploration colour and form on canvas and a passionate engagement with painting in and of itself. D’Hollander only saw one solo exhibition during her lifetime, and she only wrote one text reflecting on her art. In it, she indicates that everything we need to know about her as a person, and as a painter, is in the work: “My being is present in my action on the canvas.”
