Portrait Willy Van Eeckhout 'Het Overgaan - 1' - Belgium, 1973

Willy Van Eeckhout 'Het Overgaan - 1' - Belgium, 1973 Oil on hardboard Willy Van Eeckhout is a Flemish painter, born in Mechelen (Malines, Belgium), 1943. Education: Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Mechelen - National Higher Institute of Antwerp - State Normal School for Art in Hasselt - State Higher Institute for Arts of Brussels. The paintings of Van Eeckhout are expressive, mysterious, nearly undefinable, and suggestive. He deserted figurative painting in 1965 and adopted abstraction. He selected this mode of expression because he believes that it is the freest, most universal, most spiritual, and most in-depth way of artistic creation.