In response to our changing world Bea’s practice explores the creator’s resourcefulness, adaptability, and innovation. Curious how the future will look and the concept of the symbiocene, her practice is increasingly driven by her interest in exploring sustainability and organic structures. She is captivated by the new green materials that will one day be integrated into our everyday life and the science that is pushing boundaries to create a more dynamic future for us.

Bea’s work investigates the use of recycled and natural/organic materials asking questions about their coexistence creating works that are often living and breathing. Her paintings, often densely layered while also being spacious, hold the quality of live imagination. A new series of paintings, Hyphae, has grown from playing with new materials and the materiality of familiar ones, moved forward as layers of colour and opacity mimicking the structural elements of fungi (hyphae), a celebration of the mycelial web that is the backbone of the natural world. The magnification of this incredible yet mysterious organic form develops through discovering and revealing textures, imprints and marks in her painting process and are double faced much like a cross section of mycelium in glass.

As she moves on, she has been challenging the sustainability of her practice – using paint as well considered as possible and expanding the ways in which she makes marks – she has also been turning to her domestic life to provide a new life to disposable items. As she rations the use of off-the-shelf materials, she uses recycled and collected materials thus works have developed a dimension of tactility.

MA Fine Art in Painting - RUFA (Rome University of Fine Art)

BA Fine Art in Painting - Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London