Artist Profile

Frank Slabbinck

Frank Slabbinck was born in Bruges, Belgium in 1942 and studied Interior Architecture, Model Drawing and Ceramics at H.I.S.L., Ghent, Belgium. His meticulous maturity in composition coupled with an inexhaustible imagination and sheer hard work has brought him to the top of the international world of art. He has been a working artist for over forty years and his work has been represented for many years in galleries around the world. Slabbinck started as a painter of very detailed work. His style has developed with his maturity to the colourful, stylised paintings and sculptures that he is famed for today.

Style & Ethos

Slabbinck’s oeuvre is flawless, intriguing, full of surprises, and joyful, with a leaning towards the metaphysical, abstract thought and time. Although critics insist on labelling him a surrealist, it’s impossible to tie Slabbinck down to any one Art Movement or Style; his work is definitely his own — born from an abundant imagination. The strength of his work is in the fact that it is open to interpretation by each individual viewer.

Concepts and themes from some of his most celebrated works feature strongly in the Colors of Life Collection of homewares and sculptures created for Border Fine Arts’ Contemporary Gift Collection.