About

Statement

Nature is my guide. I’m moved by its ephemeral and fragile qualities, they are the antinomy of our materialistic world and they bring us closer to our truth.

Using materials like dust, air and shadows, wax and tissue paper, my drawings and watercolors are reminiscent of the mineral world, of ancient languages: traces left on the shore by a spilling wave, shadows and wind.

Quoting French artist Odilon Redon, I would hope that “my drawings inspire and do not define themselves. They determine nothing. They place us just as music does in the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”

Bio

Belgian born artist Dominique de Cock studied at various Brussels academies while working as a set designer in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

Dominique taught life drawing classes and began her career as an artist in Brussels exhibiting giant pastel drawings of dogs and elephants, juxtaposing the domesticated with the wisdom of the wild.

Sent to the US by Arte, a wallpaper and fabric company, as a product designer, Dominique continued her career in stage and costume design on the East End of Long Island and worked with a collective of artists engaged in Land Art: Ninbark International. which received a New York State Council on the Arts Jump Start the Arts grant.

She created ocean-themed installations with paper sculptures and works focused on forests threatened by drought and wildfire. With installations like “Offerings,” she celebrates the tree’s gift of oxygen. In “Tapestries of Light,” a translation of tree shadows on muslin, she engages the experience of receiving true light through fleeting leaves and branches.

She has exhibited in Belcham NY, Westhampton Fall Art, at Pine Street Creative Lab in Philadelphia, and Art Forms Us events in Harlem NY.

She was the recipient of a research grant from the TAMAT - Musée de la Tapisserie et des Arts Textiles de la Federation Wallonie, Bruxelles.