Mathilde Renes

Mathilde Renes was born in 1954 in Netherlands and is autodidact. She has been working as a visual artist since the 1990s. Her work consists of two facets: the ‘signed diary’ project in which she has been drawing every day since 1997 about her daily life and work, as well as her textile work.

Mathilde is a storyteller. This is clear in her embroidery based on the drawn diary: it is the story of her everyday life. But in all her work she hopes that people will think about the story behind it, become curious and come up with their own story.

The diary often provided subjects for her other “real” art, which used to be large oil paintings and graphics, now textile work. In addition to autobiographical, she almost always chooses universally female subjects as a theme. In 2018 she worked on the project “All (my) roses” inspired by all roses from her garden, in which she uses roses in all kinds of textile techniques.

Currently, the subject is “Singing”, in which she portrays various (female) choirs and female singers in textile. As a result, the next project “Connected” was created by surprising photos of the back of her embroidery, showing all the connecting threads and using them again through prints on transfer for new work.

https://mathilderenestextielkunst.exto.nl/