Although Viviane Van Melkebeeke has been participating in La Forestière's activities since 1978, it was only in 1997, then aged nineteen, that she joined the institution's plastic arts workshop.

Viviane Van Melkebeeke's creations are entirely based on the act of writing. The artist uses all supports – loose leaf, notebooks, exercise books, diaries, drawing paper – and all writing instruments – pencil, ballpoint pen, marker or brush – to display a unique form of calligraphy, invented as her own personal alphabet .