Along with painting, drawing is ‘my thing’. I particularly enjoy life drawing which helps me with spacial awareness in my painting practice.  I first  started painting in oil aged 10.  It is a medium I think can’t be equalled for its absolute glow and depth of colour and it is something I will return to when I have broken out and played with other media.   I also love nature, wild life and the natural world.  As a young mother I was a voluntary tour guide at the Natural History Museum taking classes of children around chosen exhibits and hopefully enthusing them.  I know I got a lot out of it.   I have a BA (Hons) Fine Art 1997  from the University of Hertfordshire and  I ran a professional studio for several years and teaching art and life drawing.  I had to give up my studio and after a while I changed course and practiced millinery working as a model milliner until 2020 when I ‘retired’.   Post Covid, the Autumn of 2022 I returned to painting and felt I ‘came home’.  My paintings from this period have been based on my woodland walks with my dogs, recording my impressions of the amazing fungi I find there. I still  enjoy and work on this subject but now also work on landscapes taken from ideas developed during my travels.  I exhibited in the Art Trail, part of the Hitchin Festival as my first exhibition in 2023 and have also showed my paintings annually at the Baldock Art and Heritage Centre, as part of the Open Studios.  In, Feb ’24 I completed my first floral painting in oils.  The challenge to myself was to try  show their delicacy. This painting is called Last of the Summer Flowers and is my first floral greetings card .

3 greeting cards of my woodland fungus-themed work ‘Magpie Inkcap’, ‘Babes in the Wood’ and ‘Moss and Pinkgills’ (see above) are available to purchase at £3 each in biodegradable cellophane wraps.

2 Floral greetings cards, ‘The Last of the Summer Flowers’ and ‘ Wind on the lily pond’ are also available at £3 each.  Message me on beabrownart@gmail.com for a supply of my cards.

All artworks shown here are available to buy.  Please contact Bea for sizes and prices etc.