About me

An Craps lives and works near Brussels and has a background in painting, with studies at the renowned BKO Academy in Overijse and additional training in Venice. She studied under artists such as Simona Mihaela Stoia, Floris Dehantschutter, and Virginie Bailly, refining her technique and developing her artistic voice.

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Her work explores the interplay between control and chance. She begins with existing images—photographs she takes during walks, capturing abandoned buildings or urban fragments marked by time. As the process unfolds, however, she releases this tangible reality, allowing an intuitive new landscape to emerge, where the line between recognition and abstraction blurs.

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Her use of materials is as diverse as her process. Combining acrylic, oil paint, and pastel, she creates layered compositions in which transparency and texture are crucial elements. Inspired by artists like Cy Twombly and Joan Mitchell, she pursues expressive freedom that invites the viewer not only to see, but also to feel. At the same time, her gaze turns to traditional masters: the luminous brushwork of Joaquín Sorolla, the grandeur and vitality of Peter Paul Rubens, the social depth of Constantin Meunier, and the atmospheric sensitivity of Claude Monet. From them she inherits not only a reverence for light, movement, and atmosphere, but also a dialogue with history that subtly resonates in her contemporary practice.