Belgian based creative lighting and visual design practice Painting With Light announces a restructure, with Luc Peumans becoming the majority shareholder and CEO with immediate effect, taking over all the company’s day-to-day management.
Luc founded Genk based Painting With Light in 1999. He comments “To move forward on the same trajectory for the next 15 years, I needed to be fully in control and accept responsibility for our future strategies, investments and direction … and so the deal was negotiated on that basis”.
He adds that he and his former business partners - Dimi Theuwissen and Jim Stas - are looking forward to new challenges and horizons and that they have parted “On the best possible terms”, and very proud of what the award winning company has achieved to date.
Painting With Light specializes in creating lighting, set and visual designs for shows and live events encompassing a broad spectrum of the entertainment industry. It also works on key architectural projects and installations, where its multi-disciplinary approach has produced a unique “crossover” style that can bring built environments and spaces of all types to life.
The company is market leader in these sectors in the Benelux regions and internationally.
The last three years in particular have been extremely busy, and seen Painting With Light’s involvement with numerous high profile and cutting-edge visual projects worldwide.
Ongoing projects right now include : “Dream Girls” the musical, touring the Netherlands for the next 5 months; the new Holiday On Ice show, “Passion”; creating lighting designs for girlband K3 and maverick Belgian rockers Clouseau; designing a new set design for VTM TV show “Tegen de Sterren Op” .. and several others.
Peumans was nominated for a 2014 Knight of Illumination award for his work on the acclaimed Music Hall Events’ production of “Peter Pan” earlier in the year, and in 2012 collected a City.People.Light Award for creative lighting at the C-MINE – former coal mine turned visitor attraction - development in home town Genk.
The company’s new headquarters is also located at the historically significant C-MINE site in the mine’s former horse stables, a listed building which has been lovingly restored by Peumans over the last two years combining imagination and industrial heritage with modernist invention.