Art Story

In "In mijn tuin", Roger Raveel returns to one of his most familiar motifs: the garden as a place of observation, stillness, and inward reflection. Despite its small size, the work radiates remarkable intensity and focus. The garden is not depicted as lush or colorful, but as a calm, almost abstract space where light, form, and silence are in quiet dialogue. In this late phase of his career, Raveel increasingly embraced pared-down compositions: simple shapes, dominant white space, and a strong sense of stillness. The garden here becomes a mental space - a defined field where looking, thinking, and being converge. From his home environment in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, Raveel painted not the visible nature, but an inner image where the boundaries between outside and inside dissolve.