Frank De Painter undeterred in COVID-19 lockdown
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Artists are mostly known to create some of their best works locked away in their studios with no contact with the outside world. It may be the lockdown that forced his seclusion but Frank De Painter’s brush has not quivered in the COVID-19 threat, as in the global disaster he longed for the droplets of paint and the brush strokes rather than waste away. He craved the feeling of the bristles on the canvas and picked up the brush.
Frank De Painter told MmegiOnline that the lockdown has not affected his creative flow but rather one thing that it has done is bring his life into focus giving him time to work properly on his upcoming exhibition, which he had to postpone to next year due to the pandemic.
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