Louis-Marie LONDOT ‘Abstraction I’ watercolour on paper, 2005

Painter, aluchromist, assembler, stained glass designer. Trained at the Académie de Namur. After the Second World War, he travelled to Germany, France and Italy to study. Creates aluchromic works and stained glass windows for around a hundred churches and buildings, in collaboration with architects Roger Bastin and Thierry Lanotte. Co-founder of the ‘Axe 59', ‘Axe 66' and ‘Rez-de-chaussée 28' groups. Initially opted for a post-impressionist style and regularly visited Yvonne Perin's studio. He went on to produce both figurative and abstract works, and for a time came close to Pop Art. From 1975 onwards, he found a major source of inspiration in the human body and, in the 1980s, his works became more narrative. He created all kinds of characters in a very synthetic style. He taught drawing at Bellevue College in Dinant and at the Ecole normale Sainte-Marie in Brussels. Works in the Musée de l'Art Wallon in Liège. Mentioned in BAS I and in ‘Deux Siècles de Signatures d'Artistes de Belgique'. Bibl: Paul PIRON