Feline van der Kamp

Feline van der Kamp is the ex-aequo winner of the 2022 Marianne Van Vyve Prize. During her Master year, Feline carefully dissected her fascination for lifeguards, exploring the powerful memories she had of visiting indoor swimming pools as a child. She started out with a fairly literal lifeguard figure on canvas but soon found herself focusing entirely on painterly aspects, translating emotions and feelings through colour, composition, scale and layering, moving towards abstraction in the process.