I am a process led, multi-disciplinary artist, making work with
drawing and printmaking methods.
My repetitive mark making is intuitive and organic, exploring
breath, location, and time.
I often draw with materials from the environment around me.
Walking is a large part of my aesthetic practice and I am interested in
the physicality of the walk – the departure and arrival and what goes between
- the discovery of a spiritual calligraphy and connection with the land.
Breath meditation drawings are made with mindful focus. A pattern of intuitive mark making drawn while I consciously undertake breath patterns or active listening.
Recent experiments with Wind Drawings are exciting and new to my methodologies.
All my drawings feed my printmaking.
I prefer the free flow of a piece as it progresses with monotype, playing inspires the discovery.
I recreate the repetition of the walk and breath drawing exercises
with many levels of ink to make intensity and depth. Obliterating older pieces
of work to create new pieces, questioning what might lie beneath. Adding wax,
and natural and metallic pigments, these watery layered images have a
translucence and luminosity unique to the method and perfect for my subject
matter.
More recently I have returned to monochrome pieces – stripping back
the layers leaving strong bold impressions of landscape.
Press
https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/aadm/2022/08/01/graduates-2022-jane-beacham-ma-fine-art/