BIO
Renske Herder is a multidisciplinary artist and designer, born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. She works in the fields of textile design, collage, graphic art, painting. She received her master's degree in Industrial Design Engineering and honed her skills working in the field of surface design and product styling.
After this she decided to dedicate more of her time to art making and spend more time outdoors. She quit her job and now lives and works on the Caribbean island Bonaire with her husband and two boys of 1 and 3 years old.
Renske’s body of work consists primarily of abstract and mixed media artworks. She embellishes existing photographs via her paintbrush and injects new energy into still life imagery.
What brings me alive...
Bike packing adventures, the ocean, camping, my family and off course art....
Art Practice
Renske Herder’s practice combines photography, collage and painting to explore a sense of place and cultural history. Images are always the starting point of a new work. This can be a found photo that catches my eye or a photo I took myself. I paint or draw on this image or combine several images into a new whole that expresses a certain feeling. I am always looking for images that are known and unknown at the same time or combined past and present. In addition, the feeling of summer, living on the beach, camping and traveling by bike are important elements that often come back in my work. These are the moments in life when I feel most alive, I want to convey this feeling.