Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create.
Those who inspire art to flow where it may.
Artist Simon Beck has a thing for frozen feet. His art takes him to the slopes where he spends days creating on the frozen landscape.
Simon Beck graduated from Oxford, a mapmaker specialist. A typical piece of Beck’s artwork is the size of three soccer fields and take about two days to complete.
Near the lakes in Savoie, France, Simon Beck spends his days in snowshoes, plodding out intricate quilt like and snowflake patterns.
Simon Beck is greatly challenged by nature. The risk of working the entire day only to have his design covered up by fresh snow. At other times, he races against the clock to complete his design before sunset, as to have enough sunlight to photograph his work. Other obstacles include reducing the visibility of his own tracks within his own artwork.
Can you image being in the middle of that project and wanting to take a break?
Simon’s artwork can take on different perpective depending on where you stand. The contour of the slopes can give his art a 3D effect.
Creating his work of art is more about passion than keepsake. One can not be sentimental when creating something as thin as ice. I imagine it must be the joy, the pleasure, the rush, the challenge to create, a physical expression of art that fuels his inspiration.
Often Beck must redesigned his thought out plan because nature offers a hand and recreates what he is doing.
Imagine a silent partner like that in your business.
Simon says (I am sorry I had to write it once), “The main reason for making them was because I could no longer run due to problems with my feet, so plodding about on leveled snow was the least painful way of getting exercise.”
I beg to differ with least painful…
Exercising art.
Notes:
Snowshoes to create your own Physical Artwork?
The Land, the People, the Food of the French Alps.
Thank you Carolyn Vallelunga (a reader of Tongue in Cheek) sent me news of Simon Beck. If you have an aritst that you would like me to feature please send me an email with photos, information, and or links, etc.
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