Chanterax Chantal Hemerijckx is a self-taught artist . She is an acrylic artist focusing on both the human and animal model. She didn't start focusing on art as a career until recently. In 2017 she took the leap into a full-time art career. Her work can be found in galleries and in private collections all across the world. Painting is a physical self expression to capture the mood, emotion, or personality of the model human or animal. Over time, her paintings have grown to be more about the subject and less about the setting. She was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Africa. She grew up in the lake Kivu area and then went to primary and secondary school in the country's capital Kinshasa. She lived in different European capitals : London and Paris. She is currently based in Brussels. She started her artist experience by drawing realistic portraits with only pencil and paper, her next step was mural painting. She also work with oil painting. Her oil paintings were mainly animal scenes. Her first Collection in colorful acrylic Pop Art paint « #NameTheFace » was inspired by actors and singers. Since 2018 she attends the Artistic Private Academy of Ixelles. Awarded in December 2021 in the painting category at the International Biennial of Arts of the Accademia Italia in Arte nel Mondo.
Received in March 2022 the «European International Women’s Leadership Award 2022», award handed over by the EP Vice-President MEP Nicola Beer.
[Yellow] It is precisely the color that characterizes the expressive power of the artist. Her method rep-resents a mark of recognition in her works. There are many aspects that distinguish it, such as the pre-dominance of color and a careful analysis of the expressive details. Frank and lively colors, brutal contrasts between cold and warme colors. Even the shadow parts are clearly highlighted by well-defined areas of equal colors. No soft passages from one color to another by halftones, no blends or gradations. A work of meticulousness and tenacity, skillfully operated with a high precision technique that over time has been refined more and more. Her expressive capacity elects her as a singular an elegant Pop portraitist.