Born in Liege, Belgium in 1952
Architecture degree, 1975.
Has painted since 1990.
Personal exhibitions
1997
Wégimont, Belgium: Domaine Provincial
1998
Herstal, Belgium: Ars Lineandi gallery
Brussels: Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue law firm
Liege: Assurances Fédérales building
1999
Delémont, Switzerland: Or l’art gallery
Rutherford, New Jersey, US: Art wall+B gallery
2000
Liege: Oz gallery
Aachen, Germany: Schloßpark Rahe Gesundheitzentrum
Herstal, Belgium: Ars Lineandi gallery
2001
Liege: Orpheu gallery
2002
Liege: Orpheu gallery
2003
Flémalle, Belgium: Walloon Centre of Contemporary Art (“La Chataîgneraie”)
2004
Saint Vith, Belgium: Kunstforum Ostbelgien
Liege: Orpheu gallery
Liege : L’Aquilone gallery; Nuit de la poésie érotique (Erotic Poetry Night)
Liege, le 26, a contemporary art centre.
2005
Anderlecht, Belgium: Maison des artistes
2006
Verviers, Belgium: Espace Adue
Brussels: Albert Dumont
2007
L’échapée belle bookstore
Spa: Hotel Le Soyeuru
Liege: Le Parc cinema gallery
2008
Louvain-la-neuve, Amélie Lauve
NOVEMBER in Liege: MAMAC
Collective exhibitions
1992
Aywaille, Belgium: Cultural Centre
Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium: Cultural Centre
1994
Liege: Hotel de Bockoltz
1996
Riemst, Belgium: Kunstpruuve
1997
Genk, Belgium: Kunstpruuve
Visé, Belgium: a contemporary art gallery
1998
Bilzen, Belgium: Kimpel Cultural Centre
Visé, Belgium: a contemporary art gallery
Seraing, Belgium: Abbaye du Val-Saint-Lambert
1999
Welkenraedt, Belgium: Cultural Centre
Herstal, Belgium: Ars Lineandi gallery
2001
Liege: Orpheu gallery
Liege: Museum of Modern Art (MAMAC)
Brussels, Autre Reg-art gallery
Lisbon, Portugal: M.E. de Carvalh gallery
2003
Liege, Le Parc cinema gallery, encounter between painters and writers with Marcelle Imhauser, Jacques Izoard and Djamel Merbah
Liege, le 26, a contemporary art centre.
Brussels: Château Malou selection at the art lending gallery
2004
Oupeye, Belgium: Cultural Centre
2005
Brussels: TALENT Tour & Taxi
2006
Eynatten, Belgium: Seitenwechsel
Publications
Illustration of the anthology or erotic poetry in the Liege region.
“Parlez-moi d’amour” (“Tell me about love” programme on the Belgian national network RTBF: interview by Gabrielle Stéfanski with Marcelle Imhauser, Cathy Lemaire and Jacques Izoard.
Public collections
Belgium, Liege province
Private collections
Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, New Jersey.
The studio.
My haven.
Here I meditate, read, listen to the passions of Bach, the flights of lyricism of Arvo Pärt, the jam sessions of Coltrane…
This is the place for painting.
I was born here.
Outside: observing, learning, capturing. Inside: digesting, reflecting, contemplating. Landscapes become blurs, beaches become steppe, the oceans, deserts… Magmas of my life and of the time that goes by, crucibles of my emotions, paint spread, erased, covered up, made fluid. A charcoal pen traces and brushes lightly.
It perforates and caresses.
Tears, sperm and sweat, nose to the grindstone. I put pull out all the stops and do what I can.
Jean-Paul Laixhay,
Paris, October 2009
Pierce the surface and confront the core
where tensions pass, where the model suffers and offers up…
Seize the essential.
Painting is suffering and joy.
Painting is Love.
It tells us what can’t be told, the emotion, the surreal.
Beyond the pose, perceive the shape,
Understand the light, give the movement.
The body is knows no limits…
Jean-Paul Laixhay,
Delémont, 1999
Painting in the pasture, in full forest, in the Ardennes, amid the deafening calm of greenness… Even the air is green, so green that it blurs paths and clearings. As for the green underbrush, it casts black, mournful shadows. And would Laixhay paint himself there, in foliage so thick that the contours of the earth itself are no more? People will gather around to admire these “woods without numbers” pocked with clear spots. The true thickness of life, a stream of bright colours, bristles ceaselessly.
Jacques Izoard, February 2006
Robert Clévier, Coyotte, Krzysztof Środa, Monica Trenkler, Jean-Paul Laixhay.
Opening the december 5 from 18h30.
Jean Paul Laixhay, trained as architect has left the square and drawing board to devote himself to painting. Originally from Liege, he exhibited for the first time in the gallery of the 1 October to 21 November 2009. Opening October 1 from 18:30 to 21:30.
© galerie pascaline mulliez