This book will be available Nov. 16 and coincides with the exhibition at De Warande Turnhout (16.11.2024-03.03.2025).
Book presentation with Barbara De Coninck and Sebastiaan Van Doninck: Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., De Groene Waterman, Antwerp (talk in Dutch). Coinciding with the artist’s exhibition at De Warande (17.11.24-02.03.25)
‘Walking Drawings’ contains a wide selection of landscape drawings by Sebastiaan Van Doninck (b. 1979), made during several trips in the last 10 years. All drawings were created ‘en plein air’ and drawn down in black ink in Moleskine notebooks. Dunes, forests, rocks, beaches are drawn in ever-changing ways but with a recognisable handwriting. Sebastiaan manages to create depth and colour purely with a black brush pen.
For the past 20 years, Sebastiaan has explored visual and narrative boundaries within the field of editorial and picture book illustration as a draughtsman/painter and illustrator. Always looking for a personal and fictional universe within an applied context, often hand in hand with literature and poetry.
He received several renowned awards such as the Boon youth literature audience award in 2024 with Kijk dan toch! by Elvis Peeters, and in 2023 with Morris by Bart Moeyaert, which also made it to the shortlist of the Premio Andersen Award. In 2021, together with children’s author Tjibbe Veldkamp, he received a nomination for the Woutertje Pieterse Prize (the Netherlands) with the book: De fantastische vliegwedstrijd.
Since 2008, Sebastiaan has taught illustration & drawing at Sint-Lucas Antwerp (Karel de Grote Hogeschool).
By publishing ‘Walking Drawings’, the artist commits to further opening up the boundary between applied and liberal arts.
Barbara De Coninck writes a text to accompany the drawings and frames them in art history.
