this duty while Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands was studying at Atlantic College. After his retirement from Atlantic College in the summer of 2002, Marten Post and his family returned to the Netherlands. He found a home in Kesteren, situated south of the Rhine river, just opposite the Grebbeberg. His studio is some 10 miles to the west in Tiel, in a former office building near the Waal. Together with a small number of other artists and designers he now occupies a beautiful studio space. The vicinity of water in the form of two great rivers and a nearby hill often trigger associations with his birthplace in Wales. Visual art Marten Post writes: "In my studio there are usually four or five paintings “with whom I am in discussion”. Sometimes there are long interruptions. The acrylic paint is built up in many transparent or semi-transparent layers. As visual artist I mediate between the multi-dimensional and the two dimensional world. In the first I move and capture various signals, These I process internally and make choices. My work is the residue of these decisions that are developed in the second dimension. This is not an automatic process. A great deal of 'effort' is required in wrestling with the medium as well as keeping one’s options open in registering. I always carry a small sketchbook with me.” Exhibitions Marten Post has shown his work in more than a hundred exhibitions at home and abroad. This includes participation in many group exhibitions in particular in Wales and the Netherlands. External links Website of Marten Post, English Galeries.nl Exhibition 2008, St. Donats Arts Centre Volkskrantblog, March 2010, Dutch 1942 births Living people Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch illustrators People from Rhondda Cynon Taf