Rafael Koster

He lives and works in 's-Hertogenbosch in the South of the Netherlands.
He studied commercial economics, obtained his bacholars degree and worked at several companies in marketing & sales. He has been painting since the age of twenty as a self-taught painter. Only later in life he has decided to follow his heart and passion to choose a career as a professional painter. He exhibits in the Netherlands, internationaly and his paintings are in privat and corporate collections.
When painting, he is free in creating and expessing his feelings in shapes and colours with powerful brush strokes and a palette knife. One of his favourite subject are women with their beauty, power and wisdom.

Living in The Netherlands, with their multicultural society he sees a mix of people from all over the world with their beauty, attitude and behaviour, inspiring his paintings. They are literally "sculpted"  in oil colour and a palette knife. In fact, every piece he creates has great texture, tension of the surface and depth. This can be on canvas, paper, or even a three-dimensional sculpture. His nudes breathe sensuality in different tempting poses, sometimes dreaming or looking self-assured. His oil paintings of portraits, nudes, still lives and lan...