Renate Belina

1. Short Artist Biography

Renate Belina (born Innsbruck, Austria) is a digital fine art artist based in the Netherlands. Her work blends abstraction and surrealism with atmospheric visual storytelling, resulting in layered compositions that evoke quiet emotion and poetic space. After many years working in mixed media, she transitioned fully to digital art, developing a distinctive visual language defined by texture, depth, and subtle resonance.
Her artistic career spans several disciplines. Renate worked as an illustrator in London for major international clients including Penguin, Faber & Faber, Pentagram, Picador, Collins, and various international magazines. Her illustrations were featured in European Illustration Annuals and exhibited in group shows worldwide.
Since 1984, Renate lives and works in the Netherlands, where she created book covers for leading publishers such as De Arbeiderspers, Meulenhoff, and Uitgeverij De Prom. In 1994, she co-founded design belina, a product design studio, together with her husband.
Her background also includes work as a paper and parchment restorer at the Austrian National Library, as well as formal studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, focu...

University of Applied Arts Vienna — Graphics and Painting; Book Design and Calligraphy

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna — Paper Restoration

HTL Innsbruck — Art and Crafts