About Patrick Gerola

Experienced artist
Participation in fairs
Works in international private and public collections.
Award-winning artist
Nominated at an award
Article in the press

Article in the pressContemporay artist born in 1959 in Brussels. Patrick Gerola grew up in an artistic backround, as his mother was a painter. He studied at the Royale Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture of brussels, and he started to work in 1981 with Micha Van Hoecke, director of the Maurice Béjart's ballet school and choreographer of the company "L'Ensemble", as a stage designer. In 1983, Patrick left for Japan, and since then, it is with passion that he has exclusively devoted himself to art creation through various media.

At the crossroads of three cultures: Belgium, Italy and Japan.
With a perspective on stage artwork Patrick Gerola developed his own sense of colour, space, movement and structure. The origin of all his artworks always has a three-dimensional inspiration. His wife Tomomi, Japanese artist and singer, strongly supports the succes of the artist. Along with his admiration of the Flemish masters (as a d the Belgian countryside to discover Brueghel’s landscapes) as well as of their Italian counterparts (in particular Caravaggio), Patrick is inspired by the traditions, the scenery and the customs of Japan. young man, he travelled.

A light out of the dark.
The secret of his vivid colours lies in the fact that Patrick Gerola prepares his own paints. His invention inspired by the fresco painting technique, which he draws from the pictorial technique "al fresco": he mixes resin into natural pigments "iwa enogu", traditionally used in Japanese painting "Nihonga". The pigments give the paintings the glow and transparency of precious stones. He loves painting at night, while listening to music, with a subdued light, as he can then easily adjust the intensity and the unique brightness of his colours.

Dauntless and simple at heart.
Not fully figurative nor particularly abstract, Patrick’s works reach the deepest subjectivity, the one nestled in the heart. The vivid colours that light up his landscapes cannot be found as such in nature, but you can feel them. Colour always drives his artworks, like the Manneken-Pis sculptures he renewed in various formats and covered with his paintings. His sense of colour reveals a mystery that lies in the fantasy world behind the canvas.