Daniel Storms, a Belgian brutalist painter exploring architectural memory in contemporary painting
Daniel Storms is a Belgian brutalist abstract painter working at the intersection of architecture, silence, and memory.
Based in Ronse-Belgium, he is inspired with what remains after the noise in big cities.
Storms does not paint cities; he constructs them. Through layered surfaces, controlled fractures, and restrained palettes, his paintings echo the weight of modernist architecture.
Influenced by the monumental presence of the Barbican Centre and the radical housing vision of Cité Radieuse, his work engages in a dialogue with 20th-century architectural thought while remaining distinctly contemporary.
Storms’ recent exhibitions across the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands mark a shift toward increasingly architectural compositions.
My available art work - architectural abstract paintings impired by brutalist cities and urban memories
the line that holds
Size : 160cm x 140cm Year :2026 What remains after impact is not ruin: its structure. A surface built, broken, and held together again.
eco brutalism
Size : 160cm x 140cm Year : 2026 Eco-brutalism is not a contradiction—it’s a tension. Emerging from the legacy of brutalist...
fissure
Size : 160cm x 140cm Year : 2025 layers and a striking dramatic feel. “Chaque ligne cherche à tenir. Chaque texture dit une fissure.”
L'espace contrôlé
Size : 160cm x 140cm year : 2026 This space is built, not found. A warm block insists on existing inside a colder order: not as...
Mirroir brut
Size : 160 cm x 140 cm Year : 2025 this work captivates my views on big cities perfectly. “Le brutalisme en peinture n’est pas un...
After the structure forgot its function
Size : 140cm x 160cm Year : 2026 It’s not broken. It just no longer serves. This work exists in the moment after function…when...
The other half ( left & right)
Size : 120 cm x 140 cm each, Year : 2025, I feel light, no city life pressure, the colours came naturally. '“Structuur zonder...
La ville tient encore
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2026 The city has been pushed, bent, tested. Its surfaces show stress, its angles refuse comfort. Nothing is...
When structure breaks quietly
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2026 This work is part of an ongoing exploration of architectural silence…where structure holds, until a...
Form after impact
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2025 Le choc a déjà eu lieu. Ce qui reste, ce sont des lignes déplacées, des masses resserrées, une...
Copenhagen 606
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2025 Inside the quiet geometry of Room 606 of the SAS Royal hotel in Copenhagen, designed by Arne Jacobsen...
Room 606 revisited
Size : 120cm x 140cm Year : 2025 A return — not to a place, but to an atmosphere. Room 606 Revisited breathes the ghost of Arne...
What remains unsaid
Size : 120cm x 140cm Year : 2025 The left part of a Diptych (The right part is called 'Traces of stillness') Size : 120cm x 140cm Year...
Traces of stillness
Size : 120cm x 140cm Year : 2025 The RIGHT part of a Diptych (The left part is called 'What remains unsaid') Size : 120cm x 140cm Year...
emerald city
Size : 140 cm x 120 cm Year : 2025 One of the paintings I made when returning to the Belgian countryside - an urban influence, but very...
Ce que la ville retient la nuit
Size : 100cm x 100cm Year : 2026 A dark structure rises in silence. Blocks of ultramarine and shadow press against each other like...
Stilte in structuur
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 The diagonal form cuts through the space like a memory of architecture: A passage, a wall, or the...
onder de huid van de stad
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 A dramatic cityscape with lots of relief and tension between dark and light areas. “De compositie...
A dialogue with a brutalist city
Size : 100cm x 100cm Year : 2024 Part of the series inspired by my 4 years living in the centre of London “When I paint brutalist work...
The decay of a brutalist city
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm year : 2025 Part of a series I made, based on my time living in London. “My work reflects the weight of cities —...
ce que la ville garde pour elle
Size : 100cm x 100cm year : 2026 The city never says everything. It layers silence over silence, hides warmth behind concrete...
het gewicht van aanwezigheid
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2026 A silent architecture rises from the surface. Fragments of walls and shadows of structures that fold...
squelette urbain
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 This city view with the striking gold area, has a 50's vibe, which works well with the brown and grey...
Architecture du silence
size : 100cm x 100cm year : 2026 This painting feels like a room built after everything unnecessary has been removed. Walls, corners...
ce qui tient (left) & sans bruit (right)
Size : 100cm x 100cm each year : 2026 Ce qui tient: Dans Ce qui tient, la ville ne s’effondre pas. Elle résiste. Sous les couches...
Under the westway (left & right)
Size : 100cm x 100cm each Year : 2025 The left panel is the version of me that searches for quiet. The turquoise, the softer edges, the...
spanning
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 I create a brutalist painting in 3 phases: 1. symmetry 2. add contrast 3. infuse some controlled...
Luxembourg fragments
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 This painting feels like walking through Luxembourg City at dawn … before the commuters arrive, before...
Betonhart
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 “Ik schilder steden zoals ik mensen zie: Soms gebroken en gelaagd, maar steeds vol leven"
Silence vertical
Diptych : 80cm x 100cm & 100cm x 100cm Year : 2025 Dans ce diptyque, la géométrie devient émotion. Deux toiles dialoguent dans le...
The silent corridor - diptych
Size : each 80cm x 80cm Year : 2026 A new diptych exploring architectural tension. Two structures facing each other. Ultramarine lines...
What the structure forgot
size : 80cm x 80cm Year : 2026 The structure begins to forget itself, edges softening, weight dissolving into air. What once stood firm...
Controlled impact
Size : 80 cm x 80 cm Year : 2026 Something has already happened here. You just don’t see it yet. The weight sits in the center:...
Residual skyline
Size : 80cm x 80cm Year : 2026 Where the city fades, only light remains.
Closed structure
Size : 80cm x 80cm Year : 2026 Nothing opens here. Surfaces overlap, block, erase…. each layer correcting the one before it. What was...
Concrete memory
Size : 80cm x 80cm Year : 2026 A structure that remains, even after its purpose is gone.
Fractured calm
Size : 80 cm x 80 cm Year : 2025 selected for the exhibition : BIENNALE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN D'ARLON 2025. "I build structures of silence...
Thames reflections
Size : 80 cm x 60 cm Year : 2023 A dark impression of the Thames river meandering through London. "I don't paint what I see, only what...
Work the black seam
Size : 50 cm X 80 cm Year : 2024 Inspired by Sting's 'We Work The Black Seam' song written in 1985. "This place has changed for...
tussen de barsten en het licht
Size : 80 cm x 120 cm Year : 2024 Dark, cracks and contrast : my views on a brutalist city on the light playing through it. “Het...