Clemens Briels - Screen print, Hurricane Michel is on his way to Florida

Clemens Briels was born in 1946 in Son, Brabant. His works are collector's items for lovers of top design and art. He consciously chooses new challenges, in which he exchanges academic laws regarding perspective and plane division for his own vision of antipodism. He himself says about this: "Every person is looking for his own antipode. One does this by going bungee jumping, the other by cycling in the mountains of Nepal. I do it by spontaneously giving expression to my own brainwaves and fantasy, under the motto: "there's no need to look forward, if you can practice your fantasy now!".
Briels grew up in a large family. From an early age he wanted to become an artist. In 1965 he started a course at the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven with the aim of becoming an artist. Due to various circumstances he ended up in the advertising world. He became a successful art director but at the age of 45 he decided to finally choose the artist.
Briels works predominantly with bright colours. He himself says about this: "I like to paint with bright colours. I don't really like those gloomy canvases. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I am an extrovert person."
He draws his inspiration from his own world of experience, together with the impressions he gains everywhere. He consciously does not want to get “involved” with trends. Briels: “I am used to working from an assignment in advertising. To meet strict conditions. I need that. I am not someone who sits down and thinks what am I going to make now. I am in fact my own client. If I make something, I have to have a certain intention with it. That is also when I am strongest.”
In addition to a large number of locations in the Netherlands, Briels' work has been seen in the most diverse places on earth since 1990. In Curaçao and St. Maarten, New York, Stockholm, Antwerp, Hannover, Stuttgart and even Kuala Lumpur, to name but a few locations. Many international concerns are also among his clients, such as Leolux, Intercal Telematics, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Philips and VSB-Bank.
In 1994 Briels received the prestigious international Award from the renowned Simpson Paper Company from San Francisco USA for his book “Antipodism”
For the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Briels created the official painting that was featured on posters and official merchandising.