N i c o l a s L e B e u a n B é n i c
68 rue Coudenberg
1000 Brussels
+32 472 29 10 11
Nicolas Le Beuan Bénic captures his knowledge of botany in paintings and photography where plants are the main source of inspiration. He likes to discover the essence of the structure of a plant. The visual art of this spontaneous and epicurean artist creates the same effect as visiting a botanical garden : a minimal and peaceful atmosphere that we embrace thanks to vegetal simplicity.
His artistic work navigates between figuration and abstraction. As Matisse or Ellsworth Kelly drawings, he searches for the simplicity of nature alive. Nicolas is not attracted by botanical perfection but rather by plant accident, a weaker leaf or a shapeless flower.
Each garden is for him a real museum of modern art. "Painting is my enjoyment and happiness, it keeps me in present time, a time of contemplation, it retrieves the illumination of ordinaries days”. His quest and work are meant to discover the wonder in a daily botanical life.
Nicolas Le Beuan Bénic opened his first gallery in Brussels in 1997, followed by a personal gallery on the Mont des Arts in 2006.