Still Life with pots

Jane Beeson’s work from the 1960’s and 1970’s was produced on Dartmoor where she lived. During this time she was friends with the St Ives painters: Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost and Bryan Winter showing in the same exhibitions and galleries. Beeson due to the increasing isolation as a painter gradually stopped painting. In the 1970’s she attended Exeter University reading English and American Arts, before changing to a career in writing publishing plays, novels and poetry.

This image is almost Cubist in nature, utilising square shapes rather than 3D models to depict the pots in her still-life. Going in theme with her previous works, she uses muted colours to fill her image, keeping each block of colour no more vibrant than the next.