"The strength of this portfolio lies in its versatility, emotional depth, and mastery of texture and color. The artist moves effortlessly between abstract figures, detailed portraits, and geometric abstraction, while maintaining a consistent underlying mood and technical skill."
Mieke Van Cauter is a mixed media artist with a deep fascination for human emotion and inner transformation. In her work, abstraction and figuration merge into a universal visual language that invites reflection, recognition, and connection.
MISSION
From personal vulnerability and life force, Mieke creates art that touches, heals, and opens. Her mission is to invite the viewer through image and texture into introspection and a sense of coming home to themselves.
VISION
Mieke believes that art is a powerful catalyst for emotional healing and awareness. Each piece is a bridge between the inner and outer world, between chaos and harmony. Through the intuitive use of color, layers, and textures, she aims to create tangible depth in an often superficial world.
CORE MESSAGE
Art is more than expression — it is a path to connection, with yourself and with the greater whole.
WORKING METHOD
Her creative process is intuitive and layered. She works with acrylics, charcoal, chalk, pastels, oil and paint markers, collage, and mixed media techniques. By combining diverse materials, she creates works with tangible structure and depth. Texture plays a key role in her visual language: rough versus soft, closed versus open, chaos versus calm.
BACKGROUND
A medical error in 2016 drastically changed her life. For years, she could hardly use her right hand and arm. In that physical limitation, she found a new beginning: painting became her healing, her strength, her voice. This transformation lives on in every piece she creates.
EDUCATION & RECOGNITION
She trained with renowned artists and international art schools, including Kara Bullock, Olga Furman, Patti Mollica, Julie Schumer, and Robert Kelley.
IMPACT
Her work resonates. Not because it shouts, but because it whispers. It invites. To pause. To feel. To be.