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FATIMA BAKKACH
Lives and works in roeselare, Belgium
 www.bakkach.com
artist contact
 Fatima.Bakkach@pandora.be
LA CAsCAde, 2004 oiL on canvas 59x40 in. /150x100 cm.

My work is special like any other artist’s work
of course. I’m autodidact because I’ve never
followed art academy.
Everything that’s coming up in my head I paint
it and I use for this oil painting on canvas. I
like to paint personages, animals and flowers.
With my brush I can make relief and it’s just
like I did it with a knife. I’ve never learned that
technique. The colors predominate on all my
paintings. I use heavy colors that jump in the
eye. Painting is my life and my paintings are
my treasures. I cannot live without them and
without making them. I put all my feelings and
moods in it. It’s my way to express myself.
I am crazy about flowers and settings since
I’d been a little girl. That’s what pushed me to
make Le vase de Cattleyas and many other
artworks. I made La cascade for my husband.
He wanted a little waterfall with three ducks.
Actually he was joking but I have neverthe-
less made it. Water and trees represent for
me life.

To make such paintings makes me live. I didn’t
use any model of photo to make this painting.
La fille et la Fleur remembers my childhood. I
was always in love with the flowers. I’ve never
stolen anything from my mother but I decora-
ted my class in school with her most beautiful
flowers. I’m lucky that I grew up in a farm with
lots of animals, flowers and trees.