Netherlands

Carolien Bosch is a versatile, creative artist with an enormous love for fashion and styling. As a child she dreamed of a future in the creative industry. Her knowledge, experience and creativity in the field of taxidermy, styling, craft and design advice all come together in her work.

Her whole life Carolien has been inspired by the inner beauty of butterflies, their shapes, their colors and their vulnerability. For her as a taxidermist working with butterflies started as a hobby but over the years it became her passion.

With her love and eye for details she always tries to bring the butterflies back to life translated in beautiful stories or themes, using the finest materials and the newest technics.

In spiritual meaning the butterfly stands for change, freedom, love and transformation in the quality of life. To Carolien butterflies represent the blooming of the spiritual quality of life.

Therefore, she feels it’s more than a privilege to work with them and turn their stories into an artform, bringing them back to life.

All of the insect specimens Carolien Bosch works with are raised on farms which help to preserve the valuable rainforest habitat by providing villagers an ethical income other than clearing virgin tropical rainforest. Raising insects to sell is sometimes the only incentive some indigenous people have to save the environment they live in.

Carolien Bosch doesn’t use endangered species for her artworks.