Brutalist abstract paintings by Belgian artist Daniel Storms - STILL INSIDE
STILL INSIDE marks a shift from architecture as subject to architecture as inner landscape.
Rooted in brutalism, Daniel Storms uses walls, openings, fractured lines and layered surfaces as metaphors for memory, protection and vulnerability. Concrete no longer simply defines a city; it becomes a kind of skin, carrying the marks of time, pressure and what remains unspoken.
Through abstraction, raw materiality and controlled disruption, the paintings explore the tension between what we reveal and what we keep hidden.
STILL INSIDE is about what remains beneath the surface ... what we carry, what we protect, and what refuses to disappear.
Next major exhibition:
BIAF - Belgian International Art Fair
10-11 October 2026
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My available art work - architectural abstract paintings inspired by brutalist buildings and urban memories
the slow return of matter
Size : 160cm x 140cm Year : 2026 Nothing collapses: things simply drift apart. And then, almost invisibly, they begin to gather again...
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...
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...
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...
ce qui reste
Size : 140cm x 120cm Year : 2026 Not a painting. A presence. Raw textures, restrained palette, and controlled fractures of red: this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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...
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:...
Closed structure
Size : 80cm x 80cm Year : 2026 Nothing opens here. Surfaces overlap, block, erase…. each layer correcting the one before it. What was...
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...
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...
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 - 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...