Liekens Lydia
Born 1955 / Mechelen, Belgium
Education
- 1974 Higher Secondary School-Decorative Arts, RITON – Diest
- 1976 Higher studies for teachers in Plastic Arts, RITON Diest
- 1977 – 1978 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Department of Printmaking,
Book Illustration, Antwerp, Belgium
Experience
- 1978 – 1995 Teacher of Fine Arts in different schools in Belgium
Since 1995 Teacher of Fine Arts in “Dé Kunsthumaniora”, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2007, 2011 Epreuve d’Artiste Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2015 Wondering Mind, Epreuve d’Artiste Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Additional experience
Film credits and text for the BRT’ Program “Mezza Musica” from Director Lode Verstraete. Background paintings for the Ray Goossens’s comic strips:“Musti’s Kerstfeest” and “Trompo”. Big Watercolours made in order to decorate the Italian restaurant “Al Parma” in Mechelen. Book Illustrations for the book “Uit ‘t Kanalje geboren 1885-1914, 75 jaar socialisme in Kontich” from R. de Vries. CD-cover for “The RICO Zoroh Band & Nicole”. Work selected for a page in the 1995 Calendar of the Socialist Progressive Women
She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, China, Slovakia. Her work is in numerous private collections in Belgium and abroad. She makes drawings, paintings, collages, printmaking and three-dimensional work in papier-mâché.
She lives in Mechelen, Belgium.
Contact: lyliekens@yahoo.com