Beatrice Hasell - McCosh

Beatrice Hasell-McCosh‘s work uses natural form as the lens to explore cyclicality, identity linked to place and human connection. Drawing is vital to her practice, using closely observed studies made from life to make large-scale paintings in her studio.

She works as much from memory as from the studies and, in playing with scale, the focus of importance gives way (from direct figurative representation) to a flattened abstraction of those shapes with aesthetic choices relating to composition, texture and gestural use of colour taking on the primary importance.

With a degree in English and Classics, reading widely around a subject matter is important to her.. The titles of each large work cite the disparate elements of this research from literature to pop culture, song lyrics and art historical links.