Beatrice Daniels

For me, drawing and painting are not an art in narrow sense, but became and still are becoming a way of  seeing and understanding the world: a philosophy of life and a way of being. 

Observations of aspects  and impressions of nature and cultures and the artistic expression of 'oneself' and the communication with the 'other' are keys to the 'quest' for a way of being in the world.

Each deep observation of aspects of nature, a face, an object, a place, captured in line, form, or color, seems each time the unveiling of a mystery.

My first name 'Beatrice' is etymologically traceable to the latin 'Viatrix' , meaning ' female traveller, voyager'. Writing my 'curriculum vitae' for the 'Workshop Painting 2023' at the resort  Bella Cisterna, Chios, and looking back on my studies, my professional and personal history,I realize that my parents were  surely foresighted by choosing my birthname. And I hope to be your guide on the journey to discover Bella Cisterna, Kampos and Chios on an artistic way..

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Studies and Professional History

1980 Master Faculty Philosophy and Literature - Department Archaeology snd Sciences of Arts Specializations:: Greek-Roman Archaeology- Etrucology- Early Christian Archaeology- National Archaeology (Gallo-Roman)

1980: Specializations Phd : Art Initiation- Art Criticism 

1980  Aggregate Higher Education

1980  Excavations  Brecht (Be) / Tongeren (be)

PERIOD:  1976- 2004 Stedelijk Hoger Instituut voor Visuele Vormgeving en Communicatie later Catholic Highschool Limburg- Department Plastic, Audio-visual Arts and Product Design ( Campus Genk/Diepenbeek (Be)

1976-1981 : Lecturer History of Art/ History of Architecture/ Structural Aesthetics  Academy of Plastic Arts ( adult education) Genk, Be

1979-1980 :Higher Secundary teacher French Literature.. Liberal Secondary Humanities for Girls, Maaseik (Be)

1981-1983: Higher Secondary teacher History. Secondary Art School , Genk (be)

1983-2004: Professor Philosophy// Semiotics // Aesthetics// Visual Communication// Wrting thesis // Promotor of the students of the 2nd Master Photography, Video-Film and Graphic Design

1984-1994: Professor 'Art and Culture' at the 'Vrije Leergangen Limburg',/ Free Education , Limbourg (Be): Higher Education  for Librarians and Documentalists (part-time education (evening and weekend)for professionals

1983-1999: Under Dean 

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Personal Projects and Realizations (anthology)

1982-1992 :: Curator of Art (Cultural Center Genk) : concept/organisation/director of national and international art exhibitions.

Founder and Organisator of my 'Art-Home' : Platform for Young Artists and Designers, Wilde Kastanjelaan 1, Winterslag-Genk (Be)

2012-2013 : 'The House of Nausikaa' (total art-concept) Odos Choremi 9 Chios (Gr)

2015:' My Academy-on-Wheels' : art as therapy for the Syrian war- refugee-children Kypos, Chios 

2020- ...:'Jardin Clos' Botanical Pigment Lab.  Kardamada/Kampos Chios (Gr)  

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Publications/Introductions

Introductions of my projects in newspapers, magazines, radio and television in Belgium .

Monographies:

'Temenos' concept exhibition about gender 1994 

'Mediterraneo' catalogue exhibition foreign artists living and working in Belgium 1995

''Raf Mailleux. sculptor' (+ retrospective exhibition) CC-Genk (Be) 1984

'Andre Croonenberghes, architect - watercolorist' 1992

'Piet Stockmans: (texts for audio-visiual presentation) 1992 

Evolution Ars Longa, Vita brebis (Hippocrates)