Mia Goovaerts (born 1937) paints a reality that we recognize, but that we do not always see ourselves. She invites us to experience the world with her, saying: things like this and this are beautiful. She has an emotional resonance for beauty and tries to capture it in the object or event that passes by. This drives her to constant reflection, when waking up, walking, living, experiencing life. Her painting is a kind of visual translation of this. She is struck by children, by the humanity of people, by the cyclical wonder of nature.
Her paintings are herself, her world in which she retreats undisturbed to think about hope and wishes, pain and happiness, harmony and pure beauty. She has a vital connection with what she creates: “if there is no relationship with what you create, then you paint emptiness; if I didn't love it, every step would be questionable.” She approaches beings and things through an inspiring union with them. She creates distance as a purer access, surface as a broader concentration on a deeper depth. She does this in imagery, directly as metaphors that seamlessly identify with the inner vision that, in surprising contrasts, prevent us from sleepwalking past.