The most impressive portraits I ever saw were landscapes and I somehow feel that the excellence of a landscape is to be found in a still life. Yet I haven’t experienced a great still life that wasn’t a portrait. Actually it doesn’t matter who is driving. You don’t have to sit behind the wheel yourself to be under the spell of the spicy mechanical delight of gearing.

- Pieter Laurens Mol


Pieter Laurens Mol’s work manifests great conceptual complexity and holds multiple layers of perception, interpretation and meaning.

Mol’s oeuvre discourages classification; he does not favour a single style or medium.

The artist often compares himself to an alchemist whose mysterious practices evolve into emotionally charged and visually stimulating experiments.

In fact, his diverse oeuvre encompasses and frequently combines photography, film, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation.

Fascination with the relativity of time, possibilities of manipulating space and scale, intense interest in the past, are all continuously present in Mol’s creative universe as well as sensitivity to the importance of chance and accident in the artistic process, and inventiveness within limited visual parameters.

A special emphasis on the Dutch heritage is another dominant feature.

A sense of poetry and a fair measure of melancholy always underlie his work.

Though never forgetting to put things into perspective, as an artist he intensely battles against pride and failure, themes he often treats with humour.