Flower vase

Cil De Vylder (1999) is an illustrator and comic artist based in Antwerp. She studied Graphic storytelling at Luca School of Arts in Brussels in 2022. She gives zine workshops at the Permeke Youth Library.

Cil paints, draws and writes. She creates her paintings with gouache, acrylic paint and colored pencil. She draws inspiration from her own life, photographs, films and walks in nature. The characters in the paintings show the artist's search to finding your own way in life.

In the paintings, the artist tries to stretch out precious moments. Moments that sometimes last very briefly but which you would like to experience longer; like you would want a vase of flowers to bloom forever. The paintings become an almost meditative work of standing still in the whirlwind of possibilities of life.

The figures in the paintings almost blend into their surroundings. They take place on a thin line between reality and dream world.

Artwork by Cil De Vylder