Born: Brussels, Belgium
Studied: Brussels Atelier 75, B.F.A., Brussels, Belgium; Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Known for her signature layered encaustic and mineral pigment abstractions, Goethals established her own unique and sophisticated vocabulary in the form of distinctive groups of paintings, which evolve concurrently. The work may be seen as referring to minimalism and the fundamentality of Light and Space, yet reformulate the “question of Painting” in the classical sense.

Goethals’ paintings reveal themselves slowly, examining the relationship between space and depth, presence and absence. She has used wax, resin and earth pigments as her signature medium for nearly twenty years. Through repetition of process and the sheer physical effort of applying countless layers in her work, she aims for a deep level of emotional resonance which can only be achieved once subject matter and narrative are out of the way. By seductively morphing the expressive and the minimal, her paintings are increasingly rich and psychologically compelling – while their vast surfaces and glowing light suggest something of the open spaces of New Mexico, where the artist lives.
Morphing the expressive and the minimal, her highly emotive and refined encaustic paintings have been widely exhibited, and featured in Art Forum, Art in America, THE, Luxe, Architectural Digest, and many regional publications.
Her work is held in numerous selective private and corporate collections.