Piet Raemdonck (b. 1972, Belgium) is a painter whose practice focuses on still life, landscape, and interior scenes, exploring the interplay between abstraction and figuration. Trained in fine art printmaking at Antwerp’s Sint-Lukas (now Karel de Grote-Hogeschool), Raemdonck employs a diverse range of media, including oils, acrylics, watercolours, oil pastels, and coloured pencils, to create richly textured and vibrant works across canvas, panel, and paper.
His paintings navigate a dialogue between the naïve and the classical, as well as abstract geometry and romantic expression, articulated through bold colour contrasts and dynamic brush and crayon marks. Raemdonck deliberately excludes the human figure, emphasizing instead the physicality and atmosphere of still, intimate spaces.
In 2021, Raemdonck published his first book, What I’ve Seen and What I’ve Dreamt, a comprehensive overview of his career which explores his nuanced use of colour and the balance between figuration and abstraction. The book features essays by prominent writers including Abdelkader Benali, Philip Feyfer, Els Fiers, Leonard Koren, and Joachim Lafosse.
Raemdonck has collaborated with leading Belgian fashion and interior designers such as Dries Van Noten, Christian Wijnants, Axel Vervoordt, and Gert Voorjans, integrating his paintings into fashion collections and curated interior spaces.
He describes his artistic approach as a “pendulum swing” between abstraction and figuration, emphasizing the sacred quality of geometry and the transformative power of light as central to his visual language.