Born in 1965 in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Resides and works in Crozon sur Vauvre, France.

Frank den Os has been a playwright for most of his professional life. A more or less incidental relocation to the solitude of the French countryside of Le Berry some years ago offered him a convincing ability to connect with what surrounds and the meaningful omnipresence of nature. This experience sparked an inescapable urge to document his inner landscapes differently by making a world perceptible that he knows has always been there, but veiled, if only by his ineptitude to identify it in a more efficacious, weighty manner before.

Just being diurnally encircled by the savage beauty of the scenery Den Os considers home, gently illuminates all his disparate observations and moderations as if they are invariably new, again and again, persistently joining in an always adjacent but moving closeness, equally soothing and evocative, a chaotic order wherein no real wrong seemingly exists.

Inspiration hides in the way light shifts across a horizon, the turbulence of a storm and the stillness of dawn: these rather common phenomena dare him to survey the space between clarity and ambiguity, between the seen and the unseen.

Den Os’ style can be described as a fusion of traditional techniques with modern sensibilities. His approach to painting reflects on an ongoing dialogue between the tangible and the intangible. His keen interest in nature often manifests in his work through organic shapes, fluid lines, and representations of natural elements like plants, trees, and water but they often appear transformed and reinterpreted. 

In his abstract works, den Os frequently employs bold, dynamic brushstrokes and intricate textures, which suggest movement and energy. The deliberate chaos in some of his pieces contrasts with the serene or harmonious structures found in others, creating a sense of tension. This exploration of opposites reveals one of his central themes: the balance between chaos and order, the visible and the hidden, the material and the emotional.

Den Os considers his visual work to contain an empirical response to all that is out there, but in there too, regardless of its insistence, luring, waving, bouncing, exploding , yet always vibrating on a level of its own. 

In his work Den Os strives to explore the complex relationship between perception, emotion and the natural world. He is particularly interested in how disruption, intensity and contrast can bring forth a deeper understanding of nature’s raw power, its beauty, its chaos and its fleeting impermanence as the unescorted force that truly shapes our existence.