Valérie Pirlot

Valérie Pirlot is a Belgian self-taught artist who moved to Bath, UK in 2004.

She is a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Bath Society of Artists, and a founding member of The British Plein Air Painters group. Beside her practice as an oil painter, she has been teaching painting and writing for various Art magazines (Paint& Draw, Leisure Painter, Pratique des Arts).

Valérie works predominately in the great outdoors and gets much joy from capturing the beauty of her surroundings with freshness and passion – usually in one session ‘alla prima’. In the recent years, she has been inspired to paint live events such weddings, parties, fairs (Carter’s Steam Fair), circus shows (Gifford Circus) and music festivals. In 2022, Glastonbury festival invited Valérie as one of their four official painters to come and capture the spirit of the festival and she has been returning ever since.

‘I try to depict with paint an emotion, an impression, a moment, a feeling of light that will be gone in just a few minutes. Light is at the centre of my work and remains an endless fascination. I aim to capture the essence of a subject in a few brushstrokes, but making every single one count’.

Offers: Demonstrations, Online demonstrations

Media: Water soluble oil

Subjects: Spontaneous brushstrokes, Impressionism, Alla Prima, Plein air, Landscapes, Seascapes, Interiors, People, Flowers

Will travel to: Valérie is available for online demonstrations or in-person demonstrations in the vicinity of Bath.

Email: valpirlot1@hotmail.com

Phone: 07913 474535