Attention for decorative motifs in Bart Drost's work: fishes, flowers, leaves, stars, zebra stripes and red-and-white dots. As a reaction to the cold stone floor Drost has chosen tufted woollen carpets. There are six carpets of 200x200 cm, together forming the seventh. Each carpet is accompanied by one colour photo: a shot in Drost's studio. For each picture he decorated all the walls, each time with another one of his motifs. In the studio a boy is walking, sitting or standing.


The initial plan is to tie the six rugs by hand. A time consuming job. Drost contacts old people's homes, hoping that a number of residents could assist him. Animo is certainly there, but time and time again the lamentation that it takes a lot of time and the residents are no longer the youngest... Via via Drost comes into contact with ArtiTufting in Amsterdam. This workshop specializes in the manufacture of unique floor and wall rugs by means of tufting, an industry-derived technique in which short threads of wool are shot onto a canvas. Drost draws the designs on the grid with his own hand and the employees of ArtiTufting 'color in' with wool. Because he only paints with 'colors from the pot' in his work at that time and does not mix the paint, he - stubborn as he is - forbids mixing yarns. The company does this anyway and the result is unsurpassed...

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the boy in the studio - 1990

The six carpets in the exhibition are complemented by photos of 'The boy in the studio'. All the walls of the studio are painted with each one of the motifs: leaves, flowers, dots, stripes, stars and fish. The guy is running, sitting or standing in the studio and photographed.


The series of photos was shown in 2018 in the exhibition 'spelen met kerst' in the church of Emmen


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Bart Drost

free artist

Graafseweg 183a
6531ZR Nijmegen
The Netherlands