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Other details :
Artwork on wood. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions :
31.5x23.6in
About this artwork
Residual Tension I originates from a single, dense horizontal gesture placed low on the canvas. The form carries weight and compression, suggesting pressure rather than movement.
The surrounding surface was not built up, but reduced, softened and partially opened, allowing the space around the gesture to breathe. What remains is not the intensity of the initial act, but its afterstate.
The textured lower area retains subtle traces of friction,… while the upper field holds a quiet stillness. The painting occupies the space between impact and release, where tension no longer erupts but lingers, restrained, suspended, unresolved.
Els Devrieze is a Belgian painter whose work explores intensity, stillness, and the physical presence of paint.
Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, she builds layered surfaces that function as inner landscapes rather than literal depictions. Her practice is driven by intuition and material engagement, allowing tension and balance to emerge through texture, color, and restraint.
Devrieze’s work invites sustained looking, offering space for reflection without prescribing a fixed narrative.