Patrick Marchal
Born in Kortrijk in 1956. Married to Claire Cattier. Father of Vincent, Yasmine, William and Josephine. Grandfather of Camille and Victor.
Started 1978 as a freelance art photographer traveling widely, exhibiting and publishing in Belgium, Italy, France, Germany and New York.
In 1984 he became a multimedia artist. His works and projects include: The Maple Leaf Project, Canada; The Language of Food, New York; The Daylight Studio, New York and Tuscany; A Conversation Between 2 Televisions, Sahara Desert Algeria; The Guggenheim Reflection, New York; The discovery of the world, Museum of Natural History, New York; Listen to the future, North of Scotland. Currently working on: Children portraits; An open house in the Scottish Highlands close to Lochan Garbh Doire; A new destination for Belgium/Brussels...
After living several years in New York he has now established a home base in Belgium.
Early spring 2007, he initiates the Patrick Marchal Art Gallery located in the "Galeries du Roi" in Brussels www.patrickmarchalgallery.com
Patrick Marchal is a radical humanist, who strongly believes in the potential of every individual. Listening is for him the basic condition to develop ‘the artist in each of us’ (J.Beuys)