Big Bee

Name: Big Bee
SKU: oag-ET-227916
Price: 390.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock

Elizabeth is one of the busiest artists I have ever met! If she is not giving workshops, writing the best Instagram posts out there or our buying watercolour paint (yes, she is an obsessive collector! :-), she is doing monotypes or beautiful oil paintings. She is also known for her exquisite miniature artworks.

“After completing my studies, I started my own instructional design company that allowed me to be creative and pursue an illustration and design career. I started doing fine art full-time in October 2017 after a serious health scare left me evaluating what I really wanted to do with my life.

When I started creating art again, it was watercolour that captivated me. I fell in love with the delicacy and looseness required for watercolour work. As an oil painter, water-based media was an entirely different direction for me. I started exhibiting my work in 2018 and at one such exhibition I met local printmaker and art teacher Mimi van der Merwe.

My main printmaking medium is currently reduction lino but I am creating a lot more ‘simpler’ pieces which portray the same amount of emotion but with fewer layers of colour. My goal this year is to create a consistent body of work that explores concepts of childhood, memory and nostalgia (specifically South African nostalgia). I really love the freedom that printmaking gives me to explore and push the boundaries of mark making and colour.”

Artist: Elizabeth Tristram
Artwork: Big Bee
Medium: Dry point etching
Edition: 12
Print Size: 3 cm (h) x 4 cm (w)
Paper Size: 5 cm (h) x 6 cm (w)

R390.00

In stock

SKU: oag-ET-227916 Categories: Elizabeth Tristram, Printmaking

Elizabeth is very fond of miniature artwork with supersized causes. This is her delicate “Bee”-series, highlighting the plight of bees.

The honey bee has survived on this planet for fifty million years. This species of bee is responsible for pollinating flowers, grass, trees and crops around the world, which our ecosystem depends on.

Colonies of honeybees have been disappearing at an alarming rate around the world due to parasites, viral and bacterial diseases, and the introduction of pesticides and herbicides. Over the past six years, on average, 30 % of all the honey bee colonies died off over a single winter.
If this trend continues to spiral downward, honey bees will disappear from the world. (Credits – ‘Bartleby’)