Emma Veulemans
Bold paintings and drawings emerging from a positive form of naivety.
Emma Veulemans is a visual artist with a background in graphic designs and illustration which continues to be an important starting point in her practice. She creates paintings and drawings that balance fields of colour, with bold lines and contrasting contours. Her practice explores the tension between playful, cheerful compositions and carefully layered surfaces, revealing the making of each work while inviting viewers into a vibrant visual world.
Portrait of Emma Veulemans in her studio, by Chiara Simons
More about artist Emma Veulemans
Working across painting and drawing, Emma has developed a distinctive visual vocabulary rooted in her background in graphic design, with a particular focus on illustration. Line and structure remain fundamental elements in her practice, where bold, often unnatural fields of colour contrast with sharp contours that originate from observations of the natural world.
Emma’s seemingly cheerful works emerge from a positive form of naivety which translates into colour and form. A closer look reveals the layered process behind each painting: as light falls across the surface, traces of the underlying composition that were necessary to come to the end result become visible. Rather than concealing them, they’re deliberately exposed.
Driven by a continuous desire to evolve, Emma consistently challenges herself to explore alternative approaches and expand her artistic language, seeking new ways to translate her creative vision into image.
By Emma Veulemans
60 × 55 cm, 2026
Acrylic and oil stick on wood
In Tuinhek (Garden Gate), Emma Veulemans transforms a familiar domestic scene into a carefully constructed arrangement of colour and form. A red-roofed house appears behind a dark garden gate, surrounded by fir trees and rhythmic clouds.
The gate forms a strong graphic structure in the foreground, partly concealing the house while drawing attention to what lies beyond it. Painted in acrylic and oil stick on MDF, the work combines flat areas of colour with visible marks and subtle variations in texture.
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