About

I’m Bob Mollema. An Illustrator and Art Director from Bennekom who lives and works in Utrecht.

I work as an illustrator and art director with great dedication and pleasure. I’ve worked for large and small customers, but they all have one thing in common; they are companies that thrive best on culture, people, nature, knowledge and the world. In my role, I always guide the project from start to finish. I take on the design work and the production work to ensure that the quality remains high.

I worked, among others, with Volcom, Nivon, Paradiso, Primephonic, Antiz, Eysink Smeets, Reputations, Twynstra Gudde and Pentatone.

Besides my commercial work, I work as an autonomous artist. As an artist, I am fascinated with different notions of the apocalypse and life, written by ancient and archaic civilizations and their traditions. Apocalyptic stories I perceive as eyewitness accounts of natural disasters that people have experienced. Old habits that survived via the oral tradition I perceive as rites of passage between the seasons that have been demonized.

I firmly believe civilizations that dominated the earth before monotheistic beliefs looked at nature differently, with awe and respect. Nature was seen as a catalyst for stories of death, life, pride and power. Today, nature has become totally disenchanted, and there is a desire to dominate it. I always think of poor square hedges tamed by the insane uniform whims of man.

By researching the drawing styles of archaic peoples, I can illuminate modern themes from a perspective in which we, as humans, are more peaceful with nature.