Ward Bos (1958) began drawing and painting lessons in his 15th year with the artist Ton Albers in Duivendrecht. In 1977 he was admitted to the entrance year at the Rijksacademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam. In the last three years of his academic training, he specialized in Monumental Painting under Harry op de Laak.
In the 1980's, after the Academy, he made furniture and art objects, receiving a starter's subsidy from the state. His productivity resulted in several expositions, and sales of his works including an acquisition by the Dutch National Collection.
In the end, however, he returned to painting. At the beginning of the 1990s he and his brother started a business in decorative painting. Between the work on murals and decorative designs, he made his paintings and sold them to his clients.
In 2003 he and his Swedish wife, the singer and garden architect Åsa Olsson, bought a farm in Sweden. There he rebuilt and transformed an old barn into his atelier, where he is still working.
