SPOTLIGHT: SPRING 2025: a quarterly online series

EASTWOOD FINE ART: There is a sense of a dreamlike psyche, or even spirituality, in your canvases. Could you tell us more about the themes your work explores?

GEORGIA BEAUMONT: I’m coming to understand the psychic realm of my work more deeply over time. It’s a great privilege to make art and feel it feeding things back to you, a wonderful tool for self-knowledge and self-exploration. The floral forms initially emerged after lots of time spent in nature, drawing from life. I lived in the countryside for a time, which was so formative to the work I’m making now. Later on, my paintings have moved closer to a self-generative language; the forms emerge and the stems link up in sigil-like formations, assuming a cursive quality in places. They appear from a not entirely knowable place within, a spiritual realm...

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EASTWOOD FINE ART: You primarily work in bronze and bronze resin. How did you start out? What is it about bronze that drew you to work with the medium? 

RACHEL STORMONTH-DARLING: Clare Trenchard first introduced me to bronze resin. The immediacy of casting in resin was both thrilling and complex. It’s a little brittle and not as durable as bronze. I love to use it with compound stones and marbles.

Bronze picks up complex and intricate designs, textures, and finishes that are magical and scientific in themselves. It’s amazing to tap into its rich legacy and engage with a material used thousands of years ago. Bronze has a journey of its own, with its unique ageing process developing distinct lines and shades, which are fun to manipulate with different patinas...