Vivienne Beaumont has been illustrating ‘Lyrical Landscapes’ for the last year. Influenced by her surroundings in rural Shropshire where she walks daily.
According to Vivienne “the love of place is important to me” and she has “always been attracted to ancient landscapes that reflect the hand of man”. She is particularly interested in “the flowing drifts of windswept grasses over the baked, sculpted forms of banks and ditches”. These are features of many of the hill forts found in the Welsh Marches.
“The connecting themes which inspire and inform my work are symbolic associations that hint at more personal preoccupations of love and loss. I love drawing the human form and use figures to engage and to energise my compositions”. Vivienne explores imagery and themes relating to cyclical life and archetypes of the feminine, from flowers and the cornucopia of harvest, to the use of gold as a metaphor for transformation. “I am conscious of investing emotional energy and meaning into my work, where the atmosphere is airless, the space internal and reflective”.
“I work with threads as I would with paint – blending and layering. My pieces are both visual and, for me, pleasingly tactile. The sensory engagement and haptic quality of stitch is important to my practice and the hand-made nature of art has a deep significance to me.”