Bastiaan Mol - ART - Dirck Hoffstraat 19

BASTIAAN MOL (1954)

is a Dutch artist/illustrator based in Rotterdam ,Netherlands.

Already as a very young child he has been drawing and painting almost every day.

His art education (1986-1991):

illustration design at the Academy for Applied Arts ROGER AVERMAETE , Antwerp-Belgium.

He lived and worked outside of the Netherlands from 1978-1995

(Brussels,Antwerp,Frankfurt am Main ) ,

before returning to his birthplace Rotterdam in 1995.

Many years his art needed to come second next to the job that provided a more steady income.

From 2016 on Bastiaan Mol is working fulltime on his art.

Also from that time the websites were set-up, 

and he more regularly started to exhibit his work , mainly in Rotterdam .

He also was invited to enter the Rotterdam Artists community KARMIJN.

Not really a socialclub minded person ,he did enter,but also left again after two years.

Interest from outside his country started to increase and he started selling his work

to many different places all over the globe.

In the USA : Miami,Los Angeles, Palm Beach,New Mexico,San Diego ,Philadelphia, Connecticut, etc.

But also Bangkok , Sofia,Dublin,Porto,Lisbon,Amsterdam,Brussels,Antwerp,Brugge,Gent,

Hamburg,Berlin,and even Letland.

Although it does happen oft ,that  more than just one person wants to buy a specific painting,

he is not producing prints of his works. There is always only ONE and it`s an original.

Returning subjects for his paintings are

* animals(often birds) ,

* Portraits inspired by all kinds of music , mostly world-music,

* The old stars of Hollywoodfilms and de divas of music from the 1940s-60s.

* But, most of all it`s the male figure that makes the largest part in his oeuvre.

The interest from outside of his country also was mostly for these male paintings.

That also was one of the reasons he started working on these more and more.

Nowadays it makes up about 65-70% of his art.

Materials he works with mostly are 

*watercolours *gouache*softpastels*pen+ink *graphite

All of these often mixed within one work, as a mixedmedia painting.

To a lesser extend he also works in acrylics and oilpaints on panel or canvases.

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A good example of his music inspired portraits,

are the 53 portraits of Portuguese Fadosingers he painted from 2013-2019.

Many of these portraits already went to the walls in Portuguese houses.

Two of them however, found a place in a small museum in the outskirts of Lisbon.

It`s the social cultural club keeping the heritage of the great fadomaster 

Alfredo Marceneiro, a singer and composer of fados.

Bastiaan Mol was made a member of honor of this Associoção Alfredo Marceneiro

and also received a ducument as a thank you for his contribution to

the Portuguese fadoscene and the museum in particular.

Many during friendships with these fadosingers started there and then.

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The subjects for the male paintings are often models.And also photos.

Usually not professional models,

but guys seen on the streets of Rotterdam , or on social media .

The models are posing for him , but they don`t get payed in money.

They get a unique exclusive painted portrait of themselves, 

to be picked up ready some weeks after their posing.

Worth much more than the 1,5 hour of posing ofcourse.

Sporty models can always get in touch ,if they are slim, wellbuilt , age 19 - 35( ish) .

preferably smooth body ,or shaved where neccessary.

Is the posing in the nude? Yes it is, but  often covered nudity or in briefs .

And NO,it`s not specific GAY to pose, and  there is no sex involved, let`s be clear in this.

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