Beatrice Hasell-McCosh’s practice draws on the tradition of painting landscape and natural form as a lens to explore emotion, identity and the human connection to place. Drawing is vital to her process and she uses closely observed studies from life to make large-scale paintings in her studio. Later she works as much from memory as from the studies and, in playing with scale, direct figurative representation gives way in importance to a flattened abstraction. Thus, aesthetic choices relating to composition, texture and a gestural use of colour take on the primary importance.

Of Silence and Slow Time, June-July 2022 at the Garden Museum