Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Patrick Leenaers
As he lacked rules in school, he also lacks rules in his Art-works. He likes to make pieces and sculptures using old materials from demolished buildings to natural wood, stone, … But always with his signature small sitting men. He also paints. Sometimes using bright colours, sometimes only brown and white. Different techniques, using different materials to paint. Often using strange materials as metal, old books, even money bills from all the world wide countries he visited. And of course never without his signature small sitting men.
His art expositions are always a mixture of very different things, pieces, colors, etc. It is never boring. Because that is how his mind works. But always one thing makes it very clear who is the artist of the work: the little sitting men, in Flemish called ‘mennekes’.