Pierre Van Bey was born in 1970 in Villeneuve d'Ascq near Lille.
He completed the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Tournai in 1994.
During this period he produced theatre sets, as well as murals, in France andCanada.
To complete his training he obtained in 1997 a Masters in Plastic Arts at the University of Lille.
The portrait then becomes for him a new field of experimentation.
In parallel he taught drawing and painting for six years.
From 2007 his painting becomes more realistic, he often works by nature and is interested in all kinds of figuration.Its pictorial influences are located in the baroque period with the obscure light, the atmospheric sensation, the realistic and sensual rendering.