Meet the artist

Théodé

Théodé is a Belgian artist with a rich and multifaceted creative journey. Trained in graphic arts in Belgium, he has worked as a designer in London and as an art director in Paris. Drawing has always been at the core of his life — a constant, instinctive exploration of image, gesture, and silent narrative.

The Human Body as a Field of Expression
At the heart of Théodé’s work lies the human figure. Often nude, fragile, and solitary, it is depicted with great precision and honesty, in simple, grounded postures. Through a bold, raw, expressive line, the artist captures the tension of a moment, the interiority of a character, the emotional weight of a suspended gesture.

His works often include text fragments or typographic elements, introducing an additional poetic or narrative layer (Another Day, Observe & Wait...). His compositions play with contrast — color and line, density and emptiness, sound and silence — and oscillate between figuration and abstraction.

A Free and Intuitive Graphic Language
For Théodé, drawing is an emotional language. Each mark, each trace of ink, is not meant to illustrate but to evoke. His creative process is grounded in sincerity, freedom, and the pursuit of expressive clarity — seeking not depiction, but sensation through form.

The Tiger as a Symbolic Counterpoint
Alongside his figurative work, Théodé has developed a series of tiger portraits, which have become his totem animal, symbolizing strength, solitude, and mystery. Made primarily with Indian ink on paper or canvas, these tigers appear in themed series such as Warriors, Legends, Spirits, Gods, or Demons. They extend his exploration of presence, instinct, and inner force.

A symbolic bestiary echoing the emotional resonance of his human figures.

His singular artistic universe — between tension and silence, strength and vulnerability — resonates with those drawn to the purity of line and the introspective potential of contemporary drawing.