Jitske Schols

Jitske Schols (b. 1969) is a Dutch visual artist based in Amsterdam. She has a background in communications and combines her interest in people and their stories with her love for painting.

Schols’ work focuses on telling lost or untold ‘herstories’ as a counterpoint to all the stories of men in ‘history’. She often works on long-term projects where she thoroughly researches her subjects and in the process is inspired to create paintings that she uses to tell the stories of these women in a personal and intimate way.

Schols gained recognition as a photographer winning the Dutch National Portrait Prize in 2017. During covid lockdown she exchanged her camera for the brush and dedicated herself to painting. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally and she has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work, including the Canon Zilveren Camera and a retrospective exhibition of her paintings in a Dutch museum. Works by Schols are included in several corporate and museum collections.