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 investigates the emotional residue of urban mass, what remains after noise.
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.
Concrete, tension, erosion, and balance form the vocabulary of his canvases.
Storms’ recent exhibitions across the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands mark a shift toward increasingly architectural compositions: heavier forms, sharper divisions, and a heightened awareness of spatial rhythm.
Daniel continues to explore a singular question: how can painting carry the weight of architecture, and still remain quiet?
My available art work - architectural abstract paintings impired by brutalist cities and urban memories
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cite radieuse
Size : 160 cm x 140 cm Year : 2025 “La composition s’inspire de l’architecture : des formes se bloquent, des masses s’entrechoquent.”
ce qui reste
Size : 140cm x 120cm year : 2025 Blocks rise and overlap, not to dominate, but to coexist. Dark masses carry weight and memory, while...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Architecture du silence
size : 100cm x 100cm year : 2026 This painting feels like a room built after everything unnecessary has been removed. Walls, corners...
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...
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...
The decay of 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 —...
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...
Betonhart
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 “Ik schilder steden zoals ik mensen zie: Soms gebroken en gelaagd, maar steeds vol leven"
The weight of red
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 "not pictures of the world, but foundations of its silence"
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...
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...
Fragments of silence
Size : 80 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 Geometry as memory. Layers of colour hold the echoes of forgotten façades: green like oxidised metal...
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...
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...
Periferie
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2025 More chaos, more colour, more passion. “Mijn werk tracht de ademhaling van de stad te vangen : zwaar...
Silence vertical
Diptych : 80cm x 100cm & 100cm x 100cm Year : 2025 Dans ce diptyque, la géométrie devient émotion. Deux toiles dialoguent dans le...
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...
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...
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...
Volume brut
Size : 100 cm x 150 cm Year : 2024 A multi-layered complex city view. “Je rature, je couvre, je découvre. Ce n’est jamais propre. Ce...
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...
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...
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...