Philip Henderickx 1976 is a Belgian contemporary artist (painter, photographer http://www.time.be)

Henderickx was born in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

 & spend his childhood in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

, Togo

Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

 & Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

Studied in the academy

Academy

An academy is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership.The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. In the western world academia is the...

 of fine arts in Ghent & Sint Lucas in Brussels after his studies in 1998 he left Belgium to work & live for 10 years in Asia.

Henderickx work is figurative

Figurative art

Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational.-Definition:...

  and makes extensive use of techniques from photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

. His palette usually tends toward monochrome & shades of grey.
Subjects of his paintings are his childhood relation to Africa, his catholic education and his new home Belgium.

Henderickxs lives and works in Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

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External links

• http://www.philiphenderickx.be
• http://cultuur.brugge.be/inputoutput2009/indexhenderickx.html
• http://www.nucleo.be/artist/index/nl/120
• http://www.lalibre.be/culture/arts-visuals/article/616457/des-personnages-bien-enigmatique.html
• http://www.lacentraleelectrique.be/index.php/nl/b-gallery/2010/124-behind-philip-hendrickx
• http://www.monuments.nu/2008/01/philip_henderickx.html