Born in 1963, Christiane Vleugels displayed her extraordinary gift of painting at a young age. She graduated from the Royal Art Academy, Antwerp, and went through a difficult period while living on commissions to paint portraits and reproductions. Christiane came to realize that all of these toils resulted in techniques which produced more glowing creations and expects one day to release her passions through her art with a fully-blossomed sense of freedom. Later on, Christiane accepted a commission from the Belgian military to paint the portrait for the Belgian Royal couple, former King Boudewijn and Queen Fabiola. Christine used to be represented by the renowned German gallery ‘Gallerie Des Beaux Arts’ and has already participated in 12 group exhibitions and 10 solo shows. She has an international collector base in Europe, Egypt, England and Asia.

Ever since she was a little girl, Christiane felt the urge to draw everything around her.

At the age of twelve, it became very clear to her parents that she was very passionate about Art.

Therefore, they decided to enroll her into an academy of fine arts where she was thoroughly educated in drawing and sculpting by the inspiring Belgian artist, Herman Cornelis.

When Christiane reached the age of seventeen, she decided to try her luck in the city of Antwerp and enjoyed three years of education at SISA, where she devoted herself to Decor painting, publicity and nature drawings.

After successfully completing her term at SIS, Christiane proudly enrolled herself into the Royal Academy of Antwerp, where she would follow two years of life drawing and familiarize herself further with the technique of oil on canvas.

In 1986 she married her first husband and moved to the city of Keulen in Germany, where she would stay for the next six years. During the last two years of this stay, her work was constantly on display at the renowned 'Gallerie des beaux art'. From there on, some of her work even reached Egypt and Liverpool.

Alas, when Christiane returned to Belgium, many years followed in which she was forced to take on countless commissions, many of them being reproductions. When the artist looks back at those tiresome years, during which she often felt herself under incredible pressure and, at times, uninspired, she realised that it was all a necessary part of her artistic journey.