Welcome to the September edition of ICA-Belgium Colour News where we bring you colour related news from Belgium and around the world.
We look into the upcoming events and the latest news by our members, and we celebrate our new Colour News editors joining the team.
Check our call for open positions, and let our feature articles inspire you!
-your ICA-Belgium team
Our next online Sunday Morning Colour Talk takes place in September!
On Sunday September 28, 2025, at 10:00 CEST, our guest will be Harald Arnkil, a Finnish artist, writer, colour researcher, founder and former president of Suomen väriyhdistys, the Finnish Colour Association. He will talk about how contemporary artists use colours, and how they regard colour theories.
There will be time for Q&A. Jeannette Hanenburg, Inez Michiels and Maja Kaurin invite you to join the conversation.
The event is free but it requires registration, the places are limited.
For more details about the event, see here.
Members’ News
Maja Kaurin
@colorspotter / The Colourspotter Chronicles / LinkedIn
Invitation to the Colourscapes Workshop
Maja Kaurin is hosting a colour workshop Colourscapes on Saturday, the 13th of September, at PLEK Brussels and Brussels Botanical Garden, from 14h to 18h.
The workshop is part of the Exhibition Collective Roots: Innerscapes of Healing, curated by Ineke Vera De Soete and on view at PLEK Brussels until 21 September 2025.
The workshop combines the restorative power of walking with observation and creative expression. The participants will:
Explore colour through abstract collage
Learn how to use colour as a catalyst
Observe their surroundings and nature in a new and creative way, by mapping colour, texture, shapes, patterns, light and sound
Experience the healing power of walking and creative expression
For more details about the workshop see here.
For the story how this workshop came about see here.
Tina Stieger
/ Embassy of ColourInvitation to the Hidden Colours Workshop
Tina Stieger is hosting a colour workshop on 14 September 2025, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
In the workshop, participants engage with their surroundings by collecting natural materials such as leaves, petals, bark, and flowers. These gathered elements form the basis for creating personal colour palettes and visual compositions.
The process encourages close observation, revealing the subtle variations of tone found in nature, whether in rural or urban environments, while also allowing space for an intuitive, sensory approach to colour.
For more information see here.
Inez Michiels
/ CITY of 8Joie de vivre: A mural in the countryside of Northern France
In the serene countryside in northern France, lies a stately country house, surrounded by rolling farmland and patches of dense woodland. It was here, in the grand stairwell of the estate’s main house, that the owners envisioned a mural, one that would capture the spirit of the house: a place for relaxed togetherness in connection with its natural surroundings. To honour this vision sustainably, the artist Inez Michiels chose mineral pigments from Antwerp-based Stoopen & Meeûs, a company known for eco-friendly, VOC-free products made from natural minerals. Read how Inez sought to translate into colour and shape a reflection of happiness, serene yet full of life, an attempt to capture not just a place, but a deep emotion.
Welcoming our new Colour News editors
Our team is growing! From this September, we welcome two new editors of our Colour News!
Vinciane Lacroix will be writing about the news and reviews of Colour Exhibitions, while Deidre Tomlinson will write Books on Colour, the news and reviews about colour related books.
Introducing Vinciane Lacroix, editor of Colour Exhibitions
Vinciane Lacroix is a multidisciplinary artist and scientist whose lifelong passion is colour. She shares her explorations on the blog color-time.net and through public lectures, weaving together art, science, and technology.
Her scientific career began in Image Processing and Computer Vision, first at the Philips Research Laboratory in Brussels, then at the Royal Military Academy of Belgium. Alongside her research, she pursued evening studies in photography, painting, and engraving in Brussels. Since 1995, her work has been featured in numerous collective and solo exhibitions, including the Prix de la Gravure (Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, 1997), the 13ème Prix Photographie Ouverte (Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, 2000), and the Collection RTBF at BOZAR, Brussels (2012).
In 2022, she developed Chromagenesis, a process that recomposes the colors of masterpieces to reveal their chromatic soul (chromagenesis.net). This innovative work forms yet another bridge between art and science—celebrating the joy of colour in its purest form.
Welcome Vinciane!
Vinciane Lacroix reflects on the work of Mitja Tušek, born in Slovenia in 1961, raised in Switzerland, and now based in Brussels, in her article inspired by the exhibition Wait and See that was recently on view at Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels.
Welcome to her column Colour Exhibitions on ICA-Belgium Colour News.
Mitja Tušek – Colors between Abstraction and Figuration
Reflections on the exhibition Wait and See, by Vinciane Lacroix
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Impressions from the Walk & Talk / Meet & Learn event with Heleen Sintobin
Visiting exhibition Colour: Seeing beyond pigment in Hasselt, with our members.
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