Veerle Verschooren graduated as a ‘Master in Visual Arts’ at Luca School of Arts in Ghent in 1999. During her 4-year arts education she spent four months in the ateliers of the university ‘l’École Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs’ in Strasbourg (FR) where she was taught by lecturers and lecturers such as Michèle Perozeni and Udo Zembok. In September 1999 she continued her training at the IKA (Institute for Artistic Crafts) in Mechelen in order to learn the techniques of blown glass and cast glass, taught by Miloslava Svobodova and Koen Vanderstukken.

Yet she wilfully chose to further specialise in the old craft of glass-AND-lead, allowing her to launch an atelier at relatively little investment early 2000. She repaired existing lead glass panels but also immediately took on new projects, commissioned by a non-profit organisation to decorate its offices in Brussels.

Along the years, Veerle has gradually shifted focus to new work, contemporary solutions, ordered by people who, like herself, are touched by the fascinating process of the interplay of light and colours, texture and graphic motifs, that bring so much more life to an interior. Every day a stained-glass window can look different, depending on the position of the sun.