Isabelle Vandessplache
Isabelle Vandeplassche is a Belgian artist based in Portugal. Her practice centres on close observations of everyday spaces, colours, and objects, translating familiar fragments into quiet, intimate compositions. Working primarily with oil pastels and crayons, she develops images that balance softness with structure, guided by an intuitive and tactile process.
Often beginning with a memory, a photograph, or a single colour, her work explores how atmosphere can emerge through texture and tone rather than fixed narrative. Through layered surfaces and restrained compositions, she invites a slower and more open way of looking, where mood and presence take precedence over certainty.

