Exhibitor

400 x 400 mm

After training as a teacher, Mieke Tierlinck studied painting part time at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bruges. Her work has been seen in group and solo exhibitions in Belgium and she was commissioned to paint twenty-one portraits of the organisers of Bruges Cultural Capital of Europe, 2002.

The sitter, Francis, lives in residential care for people with disabilities in Bruges. This one of a series of portraits of the people who live in the complex, each of whom sat for about fifteen hours for Tierlinck. She says ‘I didn’t know any of them and connecting with them became a most interesting experience.’