He graduated from the Royal Academy and became a laureate of the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp.

The works are 'ways of seeing', forms of visual thinking, they make the virtual and mental space of an image real", he declares in his website.

His art practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, film and digital media.

In his website 'Museums of the Mind' he continues to publish his research, theory and experiments on the telematic future of art, the senses and synaesthesia.

During the sixties, Heyrman profiled himself as an avant-garde artist with happenings, film- and video experiments.