Corine Lescop
The Rift, painting by Corine Lescop: two reefs of multicoloured corals and golden reliefs frame a deep blue opening lit with turquoise.

Painter · Brussels

Corine Lescop

Oil, calligraphy and mixed media.

See Aquatic EscapeAvailable works
The Rift · 2024 · mixed media on canvas · 160 × 100 cm
Next exhibition17–21 February 2027Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Tour & TaxisAll exhibitions
“To paint the beauty and diversity of nature before they disappear.”

Corine Lescop has been painting for more than forty years. Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she went on to learn Japanese, then Chinese calligraphy. Her painting combines oil, Chinese paper mounted on canvas, relief, and gold and silver leaf. Her series start from nature: gardens, mountains, corals.

Her biography

Current series

Aquatic Escape

Imagined reefs, painted in relief. The series pays tribute to her father, a deep-sea diver in the Gaspé Peninsula and Newfoundland, and to endangered coral reefs.
New: small formats, 70 × 70 and 40 × 30 cm

Chromatic Bloom, painting by Corine Lescop: red, yellow, pink and green corals with rounded and branching shapes against turquoise and dark blue.Chromatic Bloom2025 · 160 × 100 cmFlaring Nest 1, painting by Corine Lescop, 2025.Flaring Nest 12025 · 100 × 160 cmFlaring Nest 2, painting by Corine Lescop, 2025.Flaring Nest 22025 · 100 × 160 cmThe Rift, painting by Corine Lescop: two reefs of multicoloured corals and golden reliefs frame a deep blue opening lit with turquoise.The Rift2024 · 160 × 100 cmCarmine Rhapsody, painting by Corine Lescop: a large branching red coral, pink forms and multicoloured accents before dark ridges beneath luminous blue water.Carmine Rhapsody2023 · 160 × 100 cmCoral Wonderland, painting by Corine Lescop: pink, red, yellow and green corals before a pale blue cracked ridge, beneath a broad expanse of deep blue water.Coral Wonderland2023 · 160 × 100 cmEmerald Undersea, painting by Corine Lescop: green and turquoise corals and plant forms beneath blue water crossed by light.Emerald Undersea2023 · 160 × 100 cmHidden Passage, painting by Corine Lescop, 2023.Hidden Passage2023 · 160 × 100 cmGarden Beneath, painting by Corine Lescop: green, red, pink and golden corals beneath deep blue water lit with turquoise, with fine fish-like forms.Garden Beneath2024 · 120 × 120 cmLabyrinth, painting by Corine Lescop: multicoloured coral forms against a deep blue background.Labyrinth2023 · 120 × 120 cmLarge square canvas from the Aquatic Escape series: a mosaic of pink, gold, green and orange corals on a dark blue ground.Aquatic Escape, 120 × 120 cm (I)Large square canvas from the Aquatic Escape series: a red fan coral at the centre of a multicoloured reef, under midnight-blue water.Aquatic Escape, 120 × 120 cm (II)Small format from the Aquatic Escape series: a cluster of round multicoloured corals outlined in black, on a blue ground.Aquatic Escape, 70 × 70 cm (I)2026Small format from the Aquatic Escape series: a red sea fan with turquoise, orange and pink corals on a midnight-blue ground.Aquatic Escape, 70 × 70 cm (II)2026Small format from the Aquatic Escape series: red and pink sea fans and orange corals on a bright blue ground.Aquatic Escape, 40 × 30 cm2026

In the studio

The paintings seen up close

Emerald Undersea hanging on a brick wall: green corals and seagrass beneath deep blue water.
Emerald Undersea · 160 × 100 cm, in the studio
Carmine Rhapsody leaning against a brick wall, seen at an angle: red and pink sea fans in relief.
Carmine Rhapsody · seen at an angle
Detail of Emerald Undersea: green seagrass in impasto, blue strokes laid down one by one.
Detail of Emerald Undersea

The series

The series, from 1993 to today

Aquatic Escapeongoing seriesParadise on Earth2019-2021Landscapes & Calligraphy2018-2019Vegetal2015-2020Sculpted Paper2017-2019Silhouettes2012-2023Japanese Erotica2008-2012Calligraphy 2006-20082006-2008Calligraphy 1993-20031993-2003

Milestones

Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, Beijing

  1. 1977

    Paris

    Beaux-Arts de Paris, studio of the painter Yankel

  2. 1981

    Tokyo

    First exhibitions in Japan, in Tokyo and at Daimaru department stores

  3. 1987

    Brussels

    Japanese, then Chinese calligraphy, in Brussels

  4. 2005

    Beijing

    France–China Year in Beijing; museums of Hebei in 2014

  5. 2021

    Xishuangbanna

    “The Rhythm of Life”, Xishuangbanna Prefecture Museum, China

  6. 2022

    Brussels

    Three exhibitions at Galerie Arielle d’Hauterives, Brussels

Full biography

To scale

The sizes, to scale

The large paintings in the series measure 160 × 100 cm or 120 × 120 cm. Each work’s page shows the painting in a room, to scale, then in detail.

Try it on your wall

Indicative scale, measured from the table, about 75 cm high. Only the scale drawing is exact to the centimetre.