Beverly is a painter based in Melbourne, Australia. Trained formally in fine art and later, digital media, she worked in design and illustration, with a segue into animation and video. She creates in a variety of media including painting, printmaking and drawing.
Her work is colourful, bold, provocative and engaging, reflecting a range of influences, from Symbolism, Expressionist art, graffiti and Pop Art to 70s cinema and modern poetry and lyrics. She involves the viewer in a narrative and mood, enabling the works to never lose their ability to engage with and enhance the life of the collector. Now painting full time, creating art is a love and a passion, enhanced by an interest in architecture, design and the cultural zeitgeist generally, fed by a curiosity about where/how painting fits into and connects with these fields.
With a classically trained background, she works in oils, acrylics and mixed media, using layers of glazes and vibrant, singing colours. Grounded in drawing and mark making, she chases those happy accidents found during the creative process to investigate new directions and bring a sense of texture, temporal fragility and spontaneity. Formal rules and an awareness of art history create structure–structure that can be experimented with, broken and remade.
Her subject matter is the human condition, spirituality and language. A love of animals and the natural and unseen/hidden world laces through it all. The ultimate aim is connection.