A look inside Luis Manuel Lambrechts' studio
"How significant is your studio for you?" With this question, we visited several participants of Atelier in Beeld for our magazine Kunstletters.
Luis-Manuel Lambrechts paints and draws. His art is strongly influenced by his Peruvian roots, folklore, and love for nature. Luis has a studio in Herent.
Is your studio influential in the work you create?
My studio certainly influences the work I make, but this is mainly due to the collection of objects, books, and artifacts that I have on display. The space itself has little to do with the themes of my paintings or the techniques I use. On the other hand, I do feel that the size of my paintings would grow if I worked in a larger studio. However, I don't feel restricted by the size of my current studio.
What material do you prefer to work with?
That's a difficult question, as I regularly switch techniques. If I had to choose, I prefer working with oil paint, oil bars, and oil pastels. There's a kind of grittiness in that material that I really enjoy. With oil bars and oil pastels, I feel like I can both draw and paint on a piece. That variety is quite enjoyable.
Do you have a fixed way of working in your studio?
There's a sort of pattern to my working method, but there's no fixed sequence in which I do things. I enter my studio in the morning, and either I continue working on something that needs to be finished urgently, or I start 'playing' around. This helps me warm up to start a new piece. I structure my week so that I can paint and draw for at least two full days. On the other days, I dedicate half a day to artistic work and the other half to tasks like accounting, emails, marketing, website updates, and so on.
Working hard or spending hours tinkering and doing nothing—it's all possible here.
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