Bio

Frank den Os (b. 1965, Dordrecht, Netherlands) is a visual artist working from Crozon-sur-Vauvre in rural France. Over decades as a playwright, he cultivated a deep sensitivity to narrative and human perception. In his painting practice, this foundation has expanded into an exploration of visual experience: how we perceive nature while wandering through our internal landscapes, searching for the thresholds between clarity and obscurity. 

Den Os’s work emerges from a sustained engagement with his surroundings. The daily quietude and raw presence of the French countryside guide his response to color, light, form and the elemental forces. Common phenomena like a shifting horizon at dawn, the turbulence of a storm, the stillness of a wooded path, all serve as starting points for his inquiry into presence and perception. He positions his work in the space between the seen and the unseen or felt, situating organic forms in compositions that reflect both tension and harmony.

His approach integrates traditional techniques with contemporary sensibilities. Across series of acrylic, mixed media, and collage on paper, canvas or panel, Den Os channels the rhythms of nature through fluid lines, textured surfaces, and dynamic brushwork. The resulting images balance between structure and chaos and navigate between abstraction and recognition. This interplay creates a visual language that is at once personal and expansive.

Central to his practice is an attentiveness to contrast between light and shadow, motion and stillness, but most of all between the material and the emotional. Den Os regards each of his pieces an empirical response to what is out there, both external and internal. Rather than impose a fixed narrative, his paintings evoke the flux of experience and encourage contemplation of how we tend to engage with the world and ourselves.

Den Os’ work has been included in international exhibitions and is held in private collections across Europe, the UK and the United States.