French born Australian artist, Beatrice is creating poetic images in her studio tucked in the Noosa hinterland. From a previous engineering career as a geophysicist working for a large international corporation she decided to release her inner creative voice and call Australia home. Starting a decade ago, her practice is twofold. She paints large aerial views of our planet to the point of abstraction using large gestural and wet on wet techniques of mixed media.
The other side of her practice is to hand carve in her unique way her own original images of the Australian nature she resonates with using a detailed meditative precision. Carving lines and making marks in a subtractive, erosive motion on rag paper and aluminium, Beatrice opens up the narration and the poesy of each of her original pieces. Her language refers to a wide range of universal marks found on topographic maps, tattoos, embroidery, lines and dot painting, lino carving techniques and more. With those irreversible unique mark makings, Beatrice releases the raw surface from the ink to weave the stories captured into the images. Each of those marks is a new shard of light. She bridges the digital with the artist manual touch in a unique way. Her artworks are all originals.