Emmanuel Beyens is a French and Belgian artist born in Paris and living in Brussels. After a fifteen year career as journalist for the written press and Belgian television, he decided in 2013 to entirely dedicate his life to portrait and depicting the human figure. His painting his strongly influenced by the memories of his childhood spent in several countries including Japan, Brazil, The Netherlands and Italy. Emmanuel has studied at the Academy of Saint-Gilles in Brussels where he learned the basics of oil painting and perfected in the nude.