Toon Van Ishoven is an Antwerp, Belgium based visual artist/designer. He creates murals, paintings, graphic and audiovisual designs. He makes original, free art as well as commissioned pieces. He likes switching between solo-work and teaming-up with theatre directors, writers, choreographers, fellow-artists etc.
"Life is a fairground, i like being challenged and getting new ideas by trying out new attractions."

I love making murals: Each wall or space influences the content i choose for it. I like integrating the specific shape or architectural features of a building, a pillar or an interior space into my design. My painting technique consists of about 2/3 of brushwork and 1/3 of spraycans and/or airbrush. It allows me to give the piece a substantial level of realism and a 3-dimensional feel.
I make time lapses of most of my murals. You can find them on YouTube by clicking on this link

I always turn back to painting. There's a special feeling about applying paint to canvas, about getting in a flow when your eyes and hands work together in observing and interpreting forms and colors influenced by light. Subject-wise, they often are 'pictures of pictures': by starting from image-material that already is a representation of something else the painting creates a "visual shift" in the viewer's perception. Painting something that's artficial, like a doll or a movie-still photograph, often gives the painting a very specific kind of realism. Something between real and not real.

Through the years i've explored many visual disciplines. I've explored the visual and theatrical potential of videoprojection. I've made stage designs teaming up with stage directors, choreographers, writers, fellow artists etc. and often find myself doing stuff i've never done before, like constructing a 6m high, manoeuvrable giant out of willow branches.