Jan Muës is a Flemish painter and jazz trumpeter-composer. His highly realistic watercolour painting, at first glance often look idyllic, and even playful or innocent. Yet every subject is replete with double meaning. Both a philosophic undertone and subtle ironic humour are complimentary elements in his works. Jan Muës mostly paints in a layered and highly elaborate watercolour technique. Jan Muës is mainly inspired by the timeless art of the 16th century Flemish artists such as Pieter Breugel.