Irene van den Bos Dutch, b. 1953

Irene van den Bos (1953, Velsen) finished her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Pedagogische Academie (Haarlem) and at Open University The Netherlands (Heerlen). Temporality and vulnerability are main themes in her work. She chooses her medium and topics intuitively.

The time she spends on the actual making of an art work is short, speed for her is a condition for making the authentic images. The materials she works with; charcoal, graphite, and paint are autonomous. It is clear to her that the form to a certain extent is the content of a work. It is not only at the service of the subject but also leads a life of its own. The work, as it were, travels back and forth between the drawing and painting itself, the paint and the charcoal, and that to where it  refers.