About

this is a portrait of the artist stein frayman from the side. shoulders and head.

Stein Frayman

Multi-media Artist & Performer

I craft ‘devotions’—artworks devoted to veneration and in reflection on how people deal with current affairs. My work spans events, festivals, collections, and museums across the Netherlands.

Discover Devotions

Explore a curated gallery of my work.

film still from the animation Friendship. Print on Wood. By Stein Frayman (copyrighted)
film still from the animation Friendship. Print on Wood
Attributes of the performance of the ferry man, who rowed people at a fesitval to an island devoted to secret performances (my musicians and bands).
Attributes of the performance of the ferry man, who rowed people at a fesitval to an island devoted to secret performances (my musicians and bands).
film still from the animation Friendship. Print on Wood. By Stein Frayman (copyrighted)
film still from the animation Friendship. Print on Wood.
Reversed Chess board series by Stein Frayman (copyrighted). Beeswax on wood. Framed.
Reversed Chess series 1 – encaustic technique (beeswax) on wood. Framed.
encaustic art work by Stein Frayman (copyrighted) on wood, depicting a butterfly wing and two butterflies on metal. Object.
Butterfly wing. beeswax and metal on wood.
Encaustic art - exhibition at Museum Nairac 2013. Stein Frayman (copyrighted)
Encaustic art, exhibition at Museum Nairac 2013
art work by Stein Frayman (copyrighted) wood, tar, metal, beeswax, depicting a forest landscape and a road. the wood shows engravings of medieval bible illuminations.
Forest hike, beeswax on metal. engravings of medieval illuminations in wood.
Prayer Tablet. beeswax on Metal on wood. Engravings in wood. Metal plate depicting a landscape. Stein Frayman (copyrights)
Prayer tablet IV – metal on wood and engravings

What Devotions are

Devotions, I feel, are the prayers send to heaven and the collaborations with people and nature, both expressions of a shared gratefulness and grief.

Art as Prayer

I craft art as prayer – often in response to struggles of individuals and groups affected by current affairs, sometimes in response to the beauty of Creation. All as visual prayers.

stein frayman saws a metal cross to fragments
performance: sawing of the metal cross into fragments that become part of new art works.

Collaborate

Together with fellow ‘truthstorians’ – artists, human rights workers and journalists, I search to do justice to how we emotionally respond to what happens in the real. Interested?

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