Relaxing Blues is an original acrylic painting by Belgian contemporary artist Hildegarde Handsaeme.
This contemporary artwork explores the quiet dialogue between serenity, human connection and emotional balance. Through elegant figurative forms, refined line work and carefully composed geometric structures, the painting creates a harmonious visual rhythm that invites contemplation. Every element has been intentionally reduced to its essence, allowing colour, space and form to communicate with remarkable clarity.
The rich palette of deep blues, soft ivory tones and subtle contrasts reinforces a feeling of tranquillity while preserving a strong architectural presence. The intertwined figures suggest trust, intimacy and quiet strength, encouraging viewers to reflect on the invisible connections that unite us. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the composition offers an open visual experience that reveals new meanings over time.
Entirely hand-painted using professional acrylics on premium stretched canvas, this one-of-a-kind artwork reflects Hildegarde Handsaeme’s distinctive artistic language, where minimalist figurative art meets geometric precision and timeless elegance. The result is a museum-quality painting that integrates effortlessly into sophisticated residential interiors, luxury hospitality projects, architectural environments and carefully curated private collections.
This is a one-of-a-kind original artwork, acquired directly from Hildegarde Handsaeme’s studio in Belgium. It is signed by the artist and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity, guaranteeing its originality, provenance and long-term collectability.
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Details
- Original artwork
- One-of-a-kind painting
- Acrylic on premium stretched canvas
- Dimensions: 160 × 100 × 4 cm (W × H × D)
- Created in 2023
- Signed by the artist
- Certificate of Authenticity included
- Ready to hang
- Sold directly from the artist’s studio in Belgium
Shipping
The artwork is delivered ready to hang and professionally packed in a custom-built wooden crate, individually manufactured to ensure maximum protection during international transport.
Final shipping dimensions and total weight depend on the protective packaging required for the destination. Shipping costs are calculated according to the delivery location and confirmed with the collector before dispatch.
Worldwide delivery is fully insured and includes professional tracking throughout the entire shipping process.
Collector’s Insight
Relaxing Blues is the most formally ambitious of Handsaeme’s three works on the platform, and at 100 × 160 cm it has the scale to sustain its ambition. The figurative line work here reaches its most fluid and confident expression — the seated nude rendered in a single unbroken continuous contour that curves from the lifted gaze of the upper figure down through the shoulders, torso, and folded legs to the base of the composition, unhurried and without hesitation. It is the kind of drawing that only works when the artist is fully in command of the form underneath the abstraction.
The dual-perspective device — a hallmark of Handsaeme’s practice — is at its most graceful here. The figure’s face appears simultaneously in profile and front view, the second gaze tilted inward as if the figure is in conversation with itself, absorbed in something interior. Small blue accents at the eyes and body provide the only departure from the ivory and navy palette, their precise placement acting as quiet punctuation within the larger flowing composition.
The geometric background — overlapping rectangles in graduated blues from deep navy to softer steel — provides the architectural counterpoint that grounds the fluidity of the figure, and the scale of the work means both elements can be fully read from a distance before the line work draws the viewer closer. This is a major piece by any measure: assured in its conception, exceptional in its execution, and deeply suited to spaces where the art is given room to breathe and be seen properly.
Materials & Presentation
- Original acrylic painting on premium stretched canvas
- Artist: Hildegarde Handsaeme (Belgium)
- Artwork size: 100 × 160 × 4 cm (approximately 39.4 × 63 × 1.6 inches) W × H × D
- Created in 2023
- Signed by the artist
- Certificate of Authenticity included
- Ready to hang
- Sold directly from the artist’s studio in Belgium
- Professionally packed in a custom-built wooden crate; worldwide delivery fully insured with tracking
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