Born in Ougrée (Belgium) in 1959, Jean-Claude Hubert was already interested in drawing and the "faces" around him. He already developed a taste for caricature and never stopped enjoying it.
Always with a notebook at hand, he spends hours walking in nature and sketching the world around him.
It was therefore quite natural that, as a teenager, he turned to artistic studies and obtained his diploma from the Institut des Beaux-Arts Saint-Luc (Liège), Illustration section, in 1991. Recruited by the school he had just left, he first had to obtain his teaching qualification, which he obtained after a year at the Saint-Laurent Institute (Liège).
In 1982, he began his great and beautiful career as a drawing teacher at the Institut des Beaux-Arts Saint-Luc (Liège) in the Illustration section, a career he would continue until his death in 2019.
At the age of 22, having befriended a number of artists from the world of entertainment, he produced various posters, programmes and leaflets for theatrical companies for several years.
Two years later, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of Michel de Ghelderode, he took part in a competition organised by his Foundation and won first prize.
Between 1983 and 1999, he participated in group exhibitions (mainly with other artists from the Institut Saint-Luc), but also organised a solo exhibition at the Galerie Saint-Luc in 1990.
At the same time, he also produced 70 large-format illustrations for a project to re-edit the book "Le Grand Bestiaire" by Gaston Compère, with whom he formed a sincere friendship.
He regularly contributes to the magazine Viniyoga with humorous and didactic drawings, creates sets and characters for short animated films and also begins his career as an illustrator.
Between 1994 and 2000, he illustrated five children's books for Pastel/Ecole des Loisirs:
"Romulus et Rémi" (text by Carl Norac)
"Cœur de singe" (text by Carl Norac)
"Gini, le petit singe" (text by Claude Lager)
"Le rêve d'Icare" (text by Rascal)
"Si je te dis" (text by Rascal)
In 2001, his former student Ralph Meyer contacted him to ask him to colour the trilogy of his comic book "Berceuse Assassine", a project he accepted with great pleasure to carry out for his friend.
From 2000 onwards, Jean-Claude will continue to teach in the Illustration section and will assiduously pursue his incessant research into new graphic techniques. During all these years, he will never cease to satisfy his permanent curiosity by trying out a multitude of different techniques and studies (inking, linocut, engraving, charcoal, acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ecoline...)