Marc Mulders (Tilburg, NL, 1958) lives and works in the country in the neighborhood of the city of Eindhoven; is a Dutch painter; watercolorist; photographer and stained-glass artist. He is best known for his oil paintings in which he follows the course of nature. In the spring and summer Mulders paints tulips, irises and roses; in the fall and winter, he focuses on wildlife like pheasants and hares. Both the flowers as the animals he paints are ' to life '. 

Besides painting in recent years, Mulders has increasingly focused on manufacturing stained glass windows. The most famous of these are the window for the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam and the St. Jan's Cathedral in Den Bosch. To feed the discussion on the window The last Judgement, and more specifically on the bottom left panel there is an airplane referencing 11/9/2001 N.Y. that’s positioned inside of an upside-down Iris in hell, of this Mulders wrote: “Since 2001, terrorism has been one of the themes on my iconographic agenda. At the time, I was already making collages devoted to this theme in the artists’ magazine ‘100.000.000’ which I published myself…

The hands as well as soul of every artist depicting a biblical theme in his own day and age will be impacted by the crucial events of his time, which will then be transformed into his own personal iconography. And every artist whose daily work is suddenly interrupted by a far-reaching and tragic event outside his workshop will feel a need and even compulsion to note down, register, codify and document the suffering and human shortcomings he has seen, thereby also preventing them from being forgotten (e.g. New Babylon by Constant: the Baader-Meinhof works by Gerhard Richter: Picasso’s Guernica and the execution of Emperor Maximilian by Goya). This is also why, for the Last Judgment, in addition to the generally accepted division between Heaven, Purgatory and Hell, I wished to depict an image in hell which is recognizable to all of us and which gives meaning to the expression ‘a hell on earth’.”

Stichting De Pont, in Tilburg, wrote on occasion of his solo exposition that the oeuvre of Marc Mulders is determined by what might be the major theme in the history of art: the eternal cycle of life and death. The expression of living and dying, death and resurrection, has been tradition for a long time in the Western painting and Mulders places himself conscious in that tradition. In series of paintings he works out this theme and he explores the pictorial features. His working method is by no means objective or purely observational, but extremely relevant and loaded. Painting means for Mulders empathy, and his expressive, impasto paintings are the repercussions of his struggle with both the topics like this with the subject matter in which he transforms them.