 In 1946, he created the "Centre de Rénovation de laTapisserie de Tournai" with his friends
Edmond Dubrunfaut and Louis Deltour and also the group "Forces murales".In 1951, he founded "atelier de la céramiquede Dour" with his wife, Simone Tits.Somville adopted the Aragon thesis, which was that "the central question in art had never been the battle between pure invention, which did not exist, and observation which is indispensable
but rather one of the sense of the œuvre opposed to it futility".