Artist Profile
https://www.thefluxreview.com/category/artist-profile/Belinda Pearce
Belinda Pearce, moniker ‘B,’ is a London artist who specializes in painting exclusively with coffee, achieving a myriad of sepia tones by varying the degrees of coffee strength and dilution.
A simple inadvertent mistake, with which many artists may identify, absent-mindedly the dipping of a paintbrush into her coffee cup, caused B to embark upon coffee-infused art experimentation.
It is now B’s preferred medium and unique focus, fusing her cafetiere’s use as both invaluable beverage dispenser with indispensable painting tool.
B’s initial faces, based on her Daughter's features, became imagined members of a social circle which she titled Caffeine Society, each inspired by her Daughter's musical theatre charater roles and invoked an urge to redeploy her Daughter’s stage make-up cast offs: used extreme-length false eyelashes, worn beauty-spots and redundant garish lipsticks.
The combination of B’s flair with her recycling project resulted in a range of dramatic fancy faces; and extending that theatrical theme B developed some akin to ‘head shots’ with bold hair and big eyes.
B employs varying styles, continually evolving her inventive portraiture, and adding to her Caffeine Society repertoire, some pieces reflect more refined models reminiscent of the Flapper era, divested of embellishments and instead imbued with chiselled looks, cloche hats, and hints of elegant silhouettes.
Whether inventing quirky bobble-heads of chic sophisticates, during the creative process B conjures the personas of her Caffeine Society collective, investing each one with an endearing back story, which B has recently decided to share.
B is now currently working on a coffee-table (it has to be) book, of the glossy kind, to showcase her painted portraits alongside pen portraits incorporating aspirational quotes to bring their personalities to life, and which B hopes will be something uplifting and inspirational to flick through during a coffee break.
https://www.thefluxreview.com/category/artist-profile/Belinda Pearce
Belinda Pearce, moniker ‘B,’ is a London artist who specializes in painting exclusively with coffee, achieving a myriad of sepia tones by varying the degrees of coffee strength and dilution.
A simple inadvertent mistake, with which many artists may identify, absent-mindedly the dipping of a paintbrush into her coffee cup, caused B to embark upon coffee-infused art experimentation.
It is now B’s preferred medium and unique focus, fusing her cafetiere’s use as both invaluable beverage dispenser with indispensable painting tool.
B’s initial faces, based on her Daughter's features, became imagined members of a social circle which she titled Caffeine Society, each inspired by her Daughter's musical theatre charater roles and invoked an urge to redeploy her Daughter’s stage make-up cast offs: used extreme-length false eyelashes, worn beauty-spots and redundant garish lipsticks.
The combination of B’s flair with her recycling project resulted in a range of dramatic fancy faces; and extending that theatrical theme B developed some akin to ‘head shots’ with bold hair and big eyes.
B employs varying styles, continually evolving her inventive portraiture, and adding to her Caffeine Society repertoire, some pieces reflect more refined models reminiscent of the Flapper era, divested of embellishments and instead imbued with chiselled looks, cloche hats, and hints of elegant silhouettes.
Whether inventing quirky bobble-heads of chic sophisticates, during the creative process B conjures the personas of her Caffeine Society collective, investing each one with an endearing back story, which B has recently decided to share.
B is now currently working on a coffee-table (it has to be) book, of the glossy kind, to showcase her painted portraits alongside pen portraits incorporating aspirational quotes to bring their personalities to life, and which B hopes will be something uplifting and inspirational to flick through during a coffee break.