A Belgian artist is hard to find.
An account here, one show a year, and the rest in a studio.arvel exists to make them visible, all in one place.
Keep Belgian
art alive.
Belgian artists show their studio and sell their work directly. The price shown is the price paid, and the artist keeps all of it. Art doesn't travel. We meet.
Are you an artist, or a client?
What we do, how, why
arvel in seven cards.
Belgian artists, direct.
One gallery per artist, open all the time.Their works, their studio, their town.
We show the work before the artwork.
A photo, a sentence, what moved forward today.That's the app's feed: News.
The price shown is the price paid.
Nothing is added at checkout.The artist keeps 100% of their price.
Art doesn't travel. We meet.
A large canvas doesn't fit in a parcel, and a frame gets damaged.The handover happens in person, at the home of whoever made it.
4 digits that release the payment.
The client has them in the app. In front of the work they show them, the artist types them in: the money goes.Before that gesture, the payment waits.
No selection, no application.
From amateur to professional, every Belgian artist comes through the same door.Nobody pays to jump the queue.
The app
Real screens, not mockups.
The demo account, exactly as the app shows it today.
- 1 / 6
Every work, on a single wall
Painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture. You sort by technique, price or distance.
- 2 / 6
The work, before the artwork
A word, a photo, the linked work. People who follow the artist see it in their feed.
- 3 / 6
Behind the work, someone
Their gallery, their news, their town. You know who you are buying from.
- 4 / 6
The price shown is the final price
Technique, size, one-off piece, seller status. Nothing is added at checkout.
- 5 / 6
Artist side: the net amount under every title
For sale, sold, drafts. What is written is what is received, in full.
- 6 / 6
Listing a work: one photo is enough
Straight on, with wall around it. The close-up and the signed back stay optional.
Who is behind arvel
I'm Thomas De Schoemaeker.
I'm a Belgian graphic designer, based in Walloon Brabant. arvel is mine end to end.
It all starts with a friend who paints. Instagram is his shop window, but the price goes out in private messages and the payment is improvised.
arvel takes over: his gallery stays, the price is on the page, and he keeps in full what he wrote down.You collect the work from the person who made it.
Thomas De Schoemaeker Belgian graphic designer
Where we are
The app is finished. It already runs on real phones.
I'm opening across all of Belgium, all at once.
The room itself is still empty: not a single work has been sold here. That is exactly why your place counts - the first galleries and the first walls fill up together.
Artists are already signing up from every corner of the country, in three languages.
An art gallery that fits in your pocket, where every Belgian artist has a place, and where you collect each work from the person who made it.