Greg Beavis
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The work submitted references Beavis’ on-going fascination with the 'gesture'; the action and energy involved in making a dynamic mark. He is interested in the dichotomy of how a mark which takes just seconds to make, then goes through the somewhat slow process of transition to create an intaglio plate that can be printed. How can the energy and spontaneity of the former be maintained in the latter? He works in a multi disciplinary way sometimes combining paintings, ink, monotypes or collages without a clear intention. These experiments are revisited at a later date and he looks for interesting areas that might provide a starting point to make digital images that could, for example, become photo polymer prints. Other works, on a much larger scale, are mixed media collages and contain sections of his abandoned gestural prints from the past. Rejected prints using different processes might re-appear next to one another as a new gesture is constructed. Striking visual and technical juxtapositions sometimes emerge as the work is collaged together. He can see the history of all the previous works that have contributed to the new one. Although this will be lost to the viewer his hope is that they will find the interplay of imagery and process both absorbing and exciting.
Greg Beavis currently prints at WMC. He is an art and photography teacher in a London seconday school. He has exhibited at the Fitzrovia, Crypt, R.K. Burt and Safehouse Galleries.
Greg Beavis currently prints at WMC. He is an art and photography teacher in a London seconday school. He has exhibited at the Fitzrovia, Crypt, R.K. Burt and Safehouse Galleries.
The work submitted references Beavis’ on-going fascination with the 'gesture'; the action and energy involved in making a dynamic mark. He is interested in the dichotomy of how a mark which takes just seconds to make, then goes through the somewhat slow process of transition to create an intaglio plate that can be printed. How can the energy and spontaneity of the former be maintained in the latter? He works in a multi disciplinary way sometimes combining paintings, ink, monotypes or collages without a clear intention. These experiments are revisited at a later date and he looks for interesting areas that might provide a starting point to make digital images that could, for example, become photo polymer prints. Other works, on a much larger scale, are mixed media collages and contain sections of his abandoned gestural prints from the past. Rejected prints using different processes might re-appear next to one another as a new gesture is constructed. Striking visual and technical juxtapositions sometimes emerge as the work is collaged together. He can see the history of all the previous works that have contributed to the new one. Although this will be lost to the viewer his hope is that they will find the interplay of imagery and process both absorbing and exciting.
Greg Beavis currently prints at WMC. He is an art and photography teacher in a London seconday school. He has exhibited at the Fitzrovia, Crypt, R.K. Burt and Safehouse Galleries.
Greg Beavis currently prints at WMC. He is an art and photography teacher in a London seconday school. He has exhibited at the Fitzrovia, Crypt, R.K. Burt and Safehouse Galleries.
The work submitted references Beavis’ on-going fascination with the 'gesture'; the action and energy involved in making a dynamic mark. He is interested in the dichotomy of how a mark which takes just seconds to make, then goes through the somewhat slow process of transition to create an intaglio plate that can be printed. How can the energy and spontaneity of the former be maintained in the latter? He works in a multi disciplinary way sometimes combining paintings, ink, monotypes or collages without a clear intention. These experiments are revisited at a later date and he looks for interesting areas that might provide a starting point to make digital images that could, for example, become photo polymer prints. Other works, on a much larger scale, are mixed media collages and contain sections of his abandoned gestural prints from the past. Rejected prints using different processes might re-appear next to one another as a new gesture is constructed. Striking visual and technical juxtapositions sometimes emerge as the work is collaged together. He can see the history of all the previous works that have contributed to the new one. Although this will be lost to the viewer his hope is that they will find the interplay of imagery and process both absorbing and exciting.
Greg Beavis currently prints at WMC. He is an art and photography teacher in a London seconday school. He has exhibited at the Fitzrovia, Crypt, R.K. Burt and Safehouse Galleries.
Greg Beavis currently prints at WMC. He is an art and photography teacher in a London seconday school. He has exhibited at the Fitzrovia, Crypt, R.K. Burt and Safehouse Galleries.
