maandag 7 juni 2010

Childhood

Karin Bos, Give me your toys!, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2005, Collection Delta LLoyd, Amsterdam

This is just a random selection which shows that childhood plays an important role in my work.

Karin Bos, The Boxer, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2005, private collection, the Netherlands
Karin Bos, Untitled, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2009, private collection, the Netherlands 

Karin Bos, Sleeping beauty, watercolor on paper, 2010

Karin Bos, Demolition girl, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Going underground 3, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Marching girls 2, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Marching girls, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2010, private collection, the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Tree girl, acrylics on paper, 35 x 45 cm, 2011

Karin Bos, Circle, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2011, Collection CBK Groningen

Karin Bos, Slightly creepy camping site 7, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2011, collection DELA

Karin Bos, Snow storm 2, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2011, private collection, the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Shifting view 2, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2011
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020

Karin Bos, The lake, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2011
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018 


Karin Bos, Queensday Fairyqueen, watercolor on paper, 102 x 66 cm, 2012

The Frog, watercolor on paper, 38 x 28 cm, 2012, private collection the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Shelter, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2012


Karin Bos, Copycat girl, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2004

Karin Bos, Testosteron rules!, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2004, private collection the Netherlands


Karin Bos, Rule #2: Never listen to grown-ups, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2004


Karin Bos, Muurtje, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2006

Karin Bos, Driving by 3, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2006


Karin Bos, Doll abuse, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 102 x 66 cm, 2006, collection Teylers Museum Haarlem, the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Kring, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2006, private collection the Netherlands

Karin Bos, Boxer, pencil on paper, 25 x 20 cm, 2006, private collection the Netherlands
Karin Bos, 3 girls dancing on a roof, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2005

Karin Bos, Boyscouts, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2007
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018 

Karin Bos, Spyglasses 2, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2007, collection Akzo Nobel

Karin Bos, Waitingroom, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2007

Karin Bos, Slightly creepy camping site 5, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2008

Karin Bos, Snow storm, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2008

Karin Bos, Spyglasses 3, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2008
collection CODA Museum

Karin Bos, Toe fiddler, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2008

Karin Bos, untitled (Spy girls), screenprint, watercolour, pencil on paper, 25 x 20 cm, 2008
Karin Bos, Flower girl, pencil on paper, 34 x 20 cm, 2012, private collection, the Netherlands


Karin Bos, The Lab, aquarel, gouache en houtskool op papier, 66 x 102 cm, 2012
Karin Bos, Snowstorm, potlood, pastel en gouache op papier, 35 x 42 cm, 2012
Karin Bos, Flower girl, olieverf op doek, 100 x 70 cm, 2013
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020, private collection, the Netherlands
Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, 66 x 102 cm, 2013. On view at Museum Het Domein, Sittard in 2014

Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, 66 x 102 cm, 2013. On view at Museum Het Domein, Sittard in 2014
Recently my parents cleaned up their attic and gave me their slide files. I wondered what to do with this huge archive of my childhood. The two watercolours titled Childhood Scenes are the result. It shows my parents, my younger sister and I, back in the sixties and seventies.
Here are some details:

Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, here's my little sister and I in the snow. 

Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, I'm playing on the beach.
Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, I'm climbing a tree.
Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my mother and I.

Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my father and I.

Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 2, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my father and I.
Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, my mother, my little sister and I walking in the woods.
Karin Bos, Childhood scenes 1, watercolour gouache and pencil on paper, detail, 2013, this is my little sister showing her pet which was an albino guinea pig.

Karin Bos, Gebroken Wit series, gouache on paper, 24 x 32 cm each, 2014

Karin Bos, The Collector, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2015, collection DELA
Karin Bos, Ghost town, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2015
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018 
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020
Karin Bos, Watercrusher, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2014, private collection, the Netherlands
Karin Bos, Safe Haven, watercolour on paper, 66 x 102 cm, 2011
Karin Bos, Heksenkring, ceramics / oil on canvas, 130 x 150 cm, 2007
on view at 'She Me' show at Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, 2011
Karin Bos, Fairyqueen 2, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, 2005
on view at 'She Me' show at Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, 2011
Karin Bos, Dress code, screenprint on paper, 56 x 76 cm, 2001
Karin Bos, Spygirls and Boyscouts, screenprint /watercolour on silk, 17 x 17 cm, 2009
Karin Bos, Doll abuse 2, gouache and pencil on paper, 40 x 30 cm incl frame, 2016

Karin Bos, Red Army 2, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2016
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020
Collection Museum CAB, Burgos, Spain


Karin Bos, Red Army, oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm, 2015
on view at CODA Museum 5 Nov 2017 - 4 March 2018  
On view at Museo CAB Feb 7 2020 - May 24 2020 
private collection, The Netherlands