BASTIAAN MOL (1954)

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

From 1986-1991 he studied illustration design in Antwerp,Belgium at the Academy of Fine Arts . International aclaim he gained through his paintings of the male figure of which many meanwhile are in private collections all over the world.Other subjects are music inspired portraits , animals(birds) and the golden years of Hollywood. Exhibitions are regularly in his city,Rotterdam or at least in the Netherlands. His work can be found already several years now in the international Gay art calender Your Daily Male . Many of his painting go outside his country ,especially to Portugal. From 2013 on he painted so far 65 portraits of fadosingers in Portugal.Most of these paintings are already on the walls in Lisbon, but 3 are part of the main exhibition at the heritage museum  of famous fado master Alfredo Marceneiro.This heritage contains besides the small museum ,also the social-cultural club preserving the remembrence on Alfredo Marceneiro and his art. Associação Alfredo Marceneiro , O Patriarca do Fado . Bastiaan Mol was made a member of honor to this society and in 2019 he received also a document as a thank you for his contribution to both the Portuguese fado scene and the museum.In the summer of 2024 again 7 painted portraits went to Lisbon and Porto. Every year more of these are painted.Many of the fadosingers became longtime friends.

In May-June 2024 a short TV- documentary was being filmed in four days ,about the male paintings of Bastiaan Mol ( Dutch national NPO2-TV) . The process was followed from a young posing male model , via the painting of a portrait and finally the finished portrait that is showed on the opening of the art exhibition .It aired oktober 2024 and can still be seen in a shorter version on the internet at NTR Art Department .

Guys that like to pose ,  (age 19-35, wellbuilt/slim,  smooth/shaved)  can contact him via the contactform. Next to live models Bastiaan also works from photos (preferably taken by himself . Also visit him on Facebook , Instagram and his other websites, such as           www.bastiaan-mol.kunstinzicht.com           

Bastiaan Mol also has 3 instagram pages:  bastiaan_mol.art  ,  bastiaanmol_fado  and  bastiaanmol_animals , for each subject a page.      Artgallery   Galerie Mooiman, in Groningen , Netherlands , also sells his work ( the male paintings) .

At the moment they have over 30 paintings by Bastiaan Mol to chose from. See their website.