Béatrice Prost

For Beatrice, creativity is her “Raison d’etre”. She “thinks” with her hands. The physical world of mixing touch, colours and shapes is her line of thoughts and means of expression. One cannot be more true to oneself in saying that “Creating is a choice of life” as Beatrice had the guts to end her professional fulltime career as Engineer Geophysicist and Business Analyst in the corporate world. Decided to re-conquer her own life, she launched herself in the biggest adventure one can dream about: the self-journey of creativity. Beatrice is an autodidact and free traveller in this journey.

After a short course of visual arts ceramics, she is developing her own style, moving into the realm of mixed media artwork. Beatrice is approaching her art in two complementary directions using textural mediums. Themes and ideas are worked and developed using mixed media paintings in parallel with glazed ceramics. Each medium is enriching the other by pushing its boundaries.

Abstract surreal narrative landscapes are used in response to her feel for the integration of men and nature. The landscapes are a subliminal blending of spaces viewed from a human eye point of view to aerial and satellite views. Her previous geological, photographical and mapping passions all merge to give us those intriguing and unique scapes. Her personal marks are those of stratifications and layers, both real and suggested, nature or human scars. Her artwork also includes spiritualism in a large sense as nature spirits and energies inhabit her world.

She is passionate about bringing (glazed) ceramics on the walls. From her studio in Queensland, by the green lush Tinbeerwah forest, she has developed a technique based on once firing homemade extremely thin paperclay “canvasses”. This is both in response to a more environmentally friendly ceramics work practice –recycling and less energy consumption- and to a freer, more direct art.

The other side of her art is more sculptural and three dimensional. She takes immense pleasure to harness the beauty of glazes in her jewel creations and in her sculptures. She started creating her jewels as a woman who loves affirming her own personality with the jewels she is wearing.