Coming from Belgium with roots in South Africa, I was always interested in different cultures, myths, identities, and imagery. As a printmaker and digital artist, I layer different culturally important images to ignite new conversations. As a female artist, I am inspired by questions surrounding beauty, identity, power, and the mythology of gender. New technological advances in AI allows me to combine generated single images into digital photomontages. I layer identities, myths, and textures with meaningful esoteric and relevant messages. My process involves a deep understanding of ideas and myths as well as archival prints on etching paper, monotype on archival printed artworks or cyanotype from printed artwork on transparencies.

Christel is a Belgian/South African digital and printmaking artist currently living in Hanover, New Hampshire who graduated with a master’s degree in visual communication & Printmaking from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. When she is not behind her Mac Studio as a practicing graphic designer, she researches images, textures, ideas from digital images, found papers, books, etc.

1994 – Sasol New Signatures, ZA
1996 – Master’s, UP, ZA
2014 – Taxi Award, Lizamore Gallery, Jhb, ZA

1994 – Dept Visual Arts, UP, ZA
1994 – Sasol New Signatures, ZA
2001 – IDETA, Tournai, BE
2014 – Lizamore Gallery, Jhb, ZA
2018 – Two Rivers Printmaking Studio (Juried), VT, USA
2019 – Ava Gallery (Juried), NH, USA
2022 – The Ledyard Gallery, Hanover, NH, USA