“Ceramics is my language “ claims Hendrik. From the age of twelve he was fascinated by it and took ceramics lessons in art school until the age of sixteen. Then real life started. He went out to work and only at the age of fifty he again could devote himself to ceramics. Hendrik also tried other disciplines, but invariably came back to ceramics. Clay was his thing. He felt that material best. Working with clay came straight from his heart. He had no choice. There was no other way. Working in three dimensions with clay was his language. His example ceramist is Tilman Meyer-Faye from the Netherlands, who kneads ceramic shipwrecks, as a visual example of failing industrial processes (cit.EKWC). Hendrik met him and it clicked immediately. He remembered from that meeting that the technical side of ceramics is not the most important. Vision is important and how to give it form. Architecture e.g. is a driver in the work of Van Walleghem. How a building is composed, how a wall remains upright with as little material as possible are challenges. He finds the stations of Calatrava in Liège and Bergen surprising and intriguing. Hendrik does not make sketches in advance, but decides how his sculpture will ultimately look during construction. The color scheme is also important because it changes the visual of the work. In any case, a work should make him feel good.