bev Milward
During the times when working with clay is not practical I work in two dimensions.
Recently it has been a series of work in gouache, pastels and oil pastels. Like the porcelain these landscapes merge shapes and colours I have noticed in the everyday world with feelings and dreamscapes. I am interested in what others see in them and if they evoke a common iconography.
Landscape Diptych
Jamboree
Gouache, pastel, oil pastel, biro
£150.00 framed
Its a Jungle in There.
Gouache, pastel, oil pastel, biro
£150.00 framed
Come what May (The Further adventures of The Fairy Queen)
Despite the world crashing down around her The Fairy Queen is unperturbed
Collage of original vintage children's illustration, wax, spray paint, beeswax, framed.
£350.00
Expedition to Inner Brink
A found board which had been stuck to plaster at some point and sprayed with a star then abandoned and the beautiful colours of a page of the Ladybird book of rocks and minerals was the starting point for this collage.
I have dreams of underground pools where terrible creatures live.
Framed,
board paper, wax, oil pastels
34cm x 29 cm
SOLD
The Garden of Online Delights Tryptich
It all began by finding a fireguard on the street and imagining it as a ready made tryptich.
I inserted board which had heavily weathered paint, enhanced with spray paint and decorated with paper and wax adding a salvaged velvet backing.
The first panel depicts The Fool from the tarot walking amidst ladybird book flowers. He is starting out on the journey to find love.
The central panel shows a medieval wounded man with his mobile phone and a halo of urine testing sticks is gazing over a shoal of medieval naked women sat astride flying penises who swim amongst the bottom feeders.
The third panel shows The World, the last tarot card.
The end game, what we all dream of but a skull lies among the flowers reminding us that everything dies.
Fireguard, board, paper, wax, paint, velvet h 66 cm w 89 cm
£550.00
Cv19MMXX
This piece was made during the transition from usual daily life to just before lockdown of March 2020.
Read from left to right in the distance are the towers of the old establishment, a dinosaur swims below and microscopic water bears floating in the sky.
On an island of microscopic organisms stands the lady from the margins with her flying penis looking with longing to an island where a Blemmyes stands looking back at her.
Further to the right past the shells and the goose barnacle a mythical medieval Bishop fish explains something to neanderthal man beneath a pill bug moon.
Up ahead are the dark fears.
Paper, spray paint and beeswax on found board 23 x 107 cm
£350.00
The Star
The central meaning of The Star in tarot is hope. It is reminder that destiny is always at play and to be patient.
A chaotic noisy garden of plants and souls clamber toward the distant star that hangs motionless and unattainable.
Board, spray paint, beeswax, oil pastels 41.5 x 46.5 cm.
SOLD
Onwards & Inwards
The board used here had been used as a painters palette and then discarded.
Small paper cut outs and wax have been added and oil pastels blended in with the rich background colour to form a loose frenetic dreamscape.
Board, mixed paints, paper, wax, oil pastels.
44.5 x 39.5 cm
£350.00
Untitled
Borne of frustrations and internal wranglings this ball of dark desires squirms across the reclaimed board.
Paper, spray paint and beeswax on board
SOLD
Curiosity Box
Open the doors peer in to the inviting chocolate box landscape of Italian lakes and garden flowers.
Flick the switch to light the interior.
Turn the handle to play Que Sera Sera.
Keep looking further to the dark message within and then a reflection of your own eyes for the answer to the riddle.
Mixed media
Photography Mr Colin Moody
£650.00
Young Hearts Run Free
This was a found board with a spray paint doodle in pink and blue. Along the bottom a young girl runs gaily in the fields towards the traditional expectations of a woman's life while above another girl bounces across the top with her heart in her hand. Images taken from ladybird books, children's book on sport and original 1970's circus programme.
Board Paint, wax, paper, oil pastels
£350.00
Where Does The Time Go?
Collage made from a board that had been painted thickly in greens and pinks overlaid with a cross section of the earths, plant life, a child and the queen from princess and the pea merged together with oil pastels and melted wax.
Framed SOLD