Behind the work: "Night Turbine"

Painted from a rooftop across three consecutive clear nights, with the sky redone each time. Completed in 2026, it's oil on canvas, impasto at 920 × 730 mm, and it comes from Joris Maes's studio in Antwerp — limited edition of 6.

How it was made

Working a piece to completion in a single outdoor session, with no studio retouching afterward, forces decisions an artist working over months never has to make — there's no revisiting a passage once the light that produced it is gone.

Sourcing materials — the specific linen weave, a particular pigment line, a paper with the right tooth for pastel — matters more to a finished piece's long-term durability than most collectors think about, and more than most artists talk about publicly.

What it's worth knowing before you buy

Woodblock printmaking survives a genuinely different economics than digital editions: every impression is a physical act requiring the printmaker's hand, which caps how large a run can realistically be and is exactly what gives small hand-pulled editions their particular value.

Watercolor's transparency comes from pigment sitting on top of paper rather than being bound into a thick paint film, which is exactly why watercolor demands UV-protective glazing that oil and acrylic can often do without.

Like the rest of Joris Maes's work, "Night Turbine" ships with a signed certificate of authenticity and a condition report photographed the day it's packed — the same protection that applies to every physical sale on Bello, regardless of price.