Willem Cole draws with fine pencil lines on slate meticulously technically accurate the grid of a woven piece of fabric. The small works confront monumentally with the aesthetic power and pure simplicity of the warp and weft technique as an all-encompassing still life.
Willem Cole studied painting at the Sint Lucas College in Ghent, where he was taught by Dan van Severen. He later became his assistant and then taught painting. In 2002 S.M.A.K. organised a retrospective exhibition of his work.