Biography

Henry Beach is a self taught artist based in Warwickshire.

Beach creates images of autobiographical themes and challenges, subjects of mankind's relationship with the natural world and the fragility attached to both of these elements.

Henry's images often have reoccurring motifs: Floral / Plant life, objects of craftsmanship and the Plantman*. Using a variety of different mediums from oil paints and pastels to acrylic Inks and aerosols. 
'An Endless Study of Plants' is an exploration of mediums, a series rooted by the isolation of the plant, plant pot and the table or plinth upon which it sits. 

*The Plantman: An anthropomorphic flower. The unseen garden attendant. Donning boots and gloves, mimicking the actions of the people he observes, taking care of the forgotten shrubs and elusive to the human gaze. 



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When I was younger, I yearned for city concrete, big noise and unpredictable metropolitan stimulus.
Completely ignoring the joys of what surrounds all of us in the countryside; natural wonders we mostly take for granted. These are reminders of a harmony which I'd not realised yet.

Each year I notice that want becoming weaker. The need to acknowledge nature's development grows stronger as more time passes.

 Perhaps, because on the whole, all of us seem to be distancing ourselves from a natural state of being; more technological integration both good and bad, purposefully or cautiously, willingly or not. It seems inevitable that we will forget the natural world that we live parallel to. A lot of my work seeks to be a reminder that we are a part of that natural world.

I'd like to continue making images that come intuitively, this seems to be my way of staying within that harmony.  

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Exhibitions:
'A Matter of Figure' September 2023 - Ealing Broadway Picture House, London.
(duo exhibition) 

'Coeden - Amidst the Trees' June - September 2024 - Upton Castle Gardens, Pembrokeshire.
(group exhibition)

 

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