Artist: Andrea Le Beau
Website: http://www.andrealebeau.com/
Commentary:
From Andrea Le Beau’s work, one can perceive that she is an artist who continually experiments with her technique. Without inhibition she attacks the object of her focus with an artistic passion. Her body of work includes traditional mounted linen with flowers as the main subject matter, clothing, works on found objects and encaustic creations. When compared alongside one another, these works all convey the sense of originating from the same hand. Primary similarities include an earth toned base coat with sparing applications of complimentary color applied. Andrea Le Beau’s creations are simplistic in design, thus the images created are not overwhelming to the viewer. They could be positioned in any space without fear of overburdening the room which they inhabit. I have chosen to profile her work, namely because there is a vibrant painterly quality to her encaustic work. For those of you unfamiliar with the term encaustic, it is an artistic application form whereby hot beeswax infused with color or left unadulterated is applied to canvas. This technique has the ability to create window like semi translucent glazes or in the case of Andrea le Beau the entire composition of a work. In the image above, yellow golden organic shapes emerge and dissipate from the ethereal canvas. The monotone color palette adds rather than distracts from the complexity of the piece by further highlighting the color gradients.
