Brutalist abstract paintings by Belgian artist Daniel Storms - STILL INSIDE
Four years in London changed the way I look at cities. When I returned to Belgium, their structures, shadows and contrasts came with me into the studio. Today, those urban memories meet something more personal: the feelings and experiences we carry within us.
I’m Daniel Storms, a Belgian abstract painter. I work with acrylic on canvas, building layers, interrupting lines and allowing traces of earlier decisions to remain visible. Those traces are part of the painting’s story.
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My available art work - architectural abstract paintings inspired by brutalist buildings 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.
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...
Miroir 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 qui reste
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2026 Not a painting. A presence. Raw textures, restrained palette, and controlled fractures of red: this...
The other half ( left & right)
Size : 140 cm x 120 cm each, Year : 2025, I feel light, no city life pressure, the colours came naturally. '“Structuur zonder...
Held in Blue
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2026 I returned to Belgium with four years of London still in my head. Visiting Antwerp, my hometown, I...
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...
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...
Vertige
Size : 120cm x 100cm Year : 2026 Sometimes I look at a city and feel something I can’t quite explain. The lines are straight. The...
Ce que la ville retient la nuit
Size : 100cm x 100cm Year : 2026 I thought I was painting a window. But the longer I worked on it, the less it felt like one. The black...
A small permission
Size : 100cm x 100cm Year : 2026 Among the dark browns and greys, a small turquoise rectangle catches the eye. It could be a window, or a...
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...
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...
Architecture du silence
size : 100cm x 100cm year : 2026 This painting feels like a room built after everything unnecessary has been removed. Walls, corners...
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...
Defoe House & Bunyan Court Abstracted
Size : 80cm x 80cm Year : 2024 Two paintings having a rather intense conversation. (Defoe House & Bunyan Court Abstracted) Neither is...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
SOLD - 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...
SOLD - eco brutalism
Size : 160cm x 140cm Year : 2026 Eco-brutalism is not a contradiction—it’s a tension. Emerging from the legacy of brutalist...
SOLD Monolith I & II
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2026 This diptych is not made to please everyone. It is dark, raw and uncompromising. The two paintings feel...
SOLD - 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...
SOLD - 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 —...
SOLD - 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...
SOLD - Betonhart
Size : 100 cm x 100 cm Year : 2024 “Ik schilder steden zoals ik mensen zie: Soms gebroken en gelaagd, maar steeds vol leven"
SOLD - 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...
SOLD - 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...
SOLD - 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...