Roger Dubois was from Baisy-Thy. He spent his childhood and a good part of his life there.
“His son Pascal published works by his dad on Facebook, underlines Christophe Balestrie, president of Baisythoise, the Baisy-Thy animation committee. I contacted him with the suggestion of an exhibition paying homage to his father on the occasion of Saint-Hubert’s Day. He was up for it. We asked people who had works to lend them to us. This is how we were able to put together this exhibition with numerous creations by the artist relating to Genappe, but not exclusively.”
1st prize at the Saint-Luc School of Fine Arts
Roger Dubois studied art at the Beaux-Arts at Saint-Luc in Brussels, from which he graduated first prize with great distinction in 1963.
“After having held a position as an auto-engraver in Charleroi, at the Londo printing works, in charge of printing the newspaper “Le Métropolitain”, my father turned to art. He began with inscriptions on Van Damme trucks He then made billboards and eventually became a full-time artist.indicates Pascal, his son, who left Genappe for Frahan-sur-Semois where he lives today.
The exhibition shows numerous creations including a plate decorated in relief with the bell tower of the Baisy-Thy church, watercolor and oil paintings, including one representing the Place d’Hattain in Baisy-Thy. “He made the fourteen stations of the Stations of the Cross in enamels, the Virgin and the Child which he made with a firebrand on a piece of wood. He also did sculpture.”.
Baisythois could admire all these works last weekend at the Saint-Roch hall.
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