Beatrice Hammond - Artist/Illustrator

My aim is to bring to life the strangest inhabitants of the human mind.

With a slightly surreal touch and an eye for detail and distortion, my work explores the beautiful and the grotesque in equal measure. Each idea evolves somewhere in the fragile borderlands between waking and dreaming; a surreal, uncertain landscape that takes shape slowly, eventually congealing into something solid enough to be extracted and made real. I celebrate the macabre and the raw, visceral nature of instinct, emotion and the subconscious.

Over time my drawings have begun to escape the flat realm of the page and transmogrify into a menagerie of sinister creatures with transfixed expressions, staring glassy eyes and vivid, open mouths. I love narrative and hope that my work compels people to evolve their own tales to explain the presence of these unnatural beasts.

Harlequin Hound

Original Oil on Board, 14x11"

The Cave

Original Oil on Canvas, 20x30"

Sight Hound

Original Oil on Board, 26x18"

Bluebird

Original Ink on Paper, 5x5"

Comfort

Original Ink on Paper, 8x9"

Jester

Original Ink on Paper, 3x11"

Broken Neck

Doll

Original Pencil drawing, 17x17"
Giclee Print, 15x15"

Double Bind

Oil, 20x30"

Hope

Oil, 9x12"
Print on canvas, 9x12"
Giclee Print on Paper, 9x12"

Insect # 1

Original Pencil Drawing, 17x17"
Giclee Print on Paper, 15x15"

Introspection

Oil, 9x12"
Print on canvas, 9x12"
Giclee Print on Paper, 9x12"

Lachesis

Giclee Print on Paper, 18x23"

Lovers

Giclee Print on Paper, 17x23"

Microschism

Oil, 30x20"

Moneyflies - Greed and Delight

Metal work (framed), 15x12"

Orphelia

Oil, 9x12"
Print on canvas, 9x12"
Giclee Print on Paper, 9x12"

Pull to Exit

Print on canvas, 20x30"

Smoke

Print on canvas, 9x12"
Giclee Print on Paper, 9x12"

Spinners

Pencil Drawing, 19x24"
Giclee Print on Paper, 17x22"

Tank-Ella

Oil, 20x30"
Print on canvas, 20x30"

Taproot

Pencil Drawing, 19x24"
Giclee Print on Paper, 17x22"

Venus

Oil, 9x12"
Print on canvas, 9x12"
Giclee Print on Paper, 9x12"

Whippet

Mixed Media Sculpture, 22x50x31cm