Lou Gils teaches drawing and engraving in the master of visual arts and is an internship supervisor in the Educational Master of Visual Arts (EMA), both at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp.
He also teaches drawing from a live nude model at the part-time art school. Lou is active as a visual artist in the fields of drawing, printmaking, painting, engraving and silversmithing and regularly exhibits at home and abroad. He participates in several national and international art, restoration and conservation projects and is a board member of non-profit organisations promoting young artists such as Athena, KOMASK and Artos