![Swa Claes](Bilder/swaclaes_1.jpg)
- Born in Balen, (B) in 1935
- Water-colour artist and aquarellist
- Graduate of the Academy for Visual Arts in Mol (B) under the guidance of Leo Lewi and Fred Jocqué
- Long-term member of the Board of Directors of the society “Vrienden van het Jakob Smitsmuseum vzw”, Mol (B) (http://www.jakobsmits.be/)
- 1978 founding member and, from 1988 to 2008, President of the “Kempische Water-colour Association” (KAV) and later of the “Water-colour Institute of Belgium” (AIB)
- 1998: Cofounder of the “European Confederation of Watercolour Societies”(ECWS)
- Organiser and instructor at many water-colour workshops in Belgium and abroad
Literature
![Swa Claes](Bilder/swaclaes_2.jpg)
- “Aquarel in Vlaanderen” 1988
- Palet en Tekenstift (NL, www.uitgeverijarti.nl)
- 19.... nr. 284, page 28-31
- 1993, nr. 246, page 8-9 – Article
- 19.... nr. 197, page 30-33
- Atelier (NL, www.ateliermagazine.nl)
- “Succesvol aquarelleren”, K. van Aelst, 2008 (Ed. OMNI, ISBN 9060735110)