As a visual artist and photographer, Bernadette Messiaen creates layered images using multiple graphic and photographic techniques that she employs with equal measures of freedom and spontaneity.
The artist usually makes use of shades of black, which she holds to be the deepest colour also leaving the most room for striking light. She explores the boundaries between presence and absence, between unfathomable depth and tenderness, between light and dark, between strength and fragility.
She erases the excess to arrive at the essence, in aesthetic images, which are sometimes overwhelmingly still.