Australian based, Dutch artist René Bolten has been making work in his Georgica based home studio, in the Northern Rivers region, for over 30 years.
His work represents the beauty in everyday objects.
This new body of work The Painter’s Studio | Het Schildersatelier, pays homage to his studio and explores the objects and tools of his daily art practice. Each life size painting represents an aspect of his studio and objects of familiarity, that are loaded with the comfort of memory and tenderly observe the place where he has spent a lifetime painting, making meaning and finding solace and safety.
The paintings in this new series, feature the tools of his practice and draw attention to his collection of books, treasured objects and household articles that are used daily by the artist and his partner, honed by hands overtime, made more treasured by this everyday use and the artist’s choice to shine a light on them through the process of painting.
BIO
Dutch born, Australian based artist René Bolten, was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1954. He studied at the Amsterdam Academy for Visual Art Education from 1973 to 1978.
For the past 30 years, René Bolten has lived and worked as an artist and art teacher in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. He has worked as a Visual Arts Teacher and Arts Facilitator across the region in TAFE (Maclean and Lismore), local Art Clubs in Ballina and Lismore, Byron School of Art, Byron Community College, RED Inc. Supported Art Studio and currently as a private mentor and tutor.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions and was awarded the Northern Rivers Portrait Prize in 2013.
His work is held in private collections around the world and in the permanent public collections of Lismore Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery and Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.
His preferred genres are still life and portraiture, created in his studio in Georgica.