CHARLOTTE BECH
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a commentary on our digital and synthetic reality. I use water color as a metaphor for the paradigm shift we humans must embrace. Options to "delete" or "undo" pervade our digital lives. We urgently need to take responsibility for every decision we make to save our natural world. I plan each brush stroke, color and shape with nuanced care. and the white parts of the works has never been touched with a paint brush. Water color affords no "deletions" or "undos", nor do our environmental actions.
It is intended to make people feel humbled and in awe of the breathtaking magnificence of nature, both in natures small details and its greatness. I work with compotition, light and darkness. with this I try to inspire in the viewer a sense of love and respect for the natural world.
All my works is one of a kind and they will never be massproduced or prints made of them.
BIO
Charlotte Bech is a native Danish Water-colour artist, who lives with her family in Copenhagen, Denmark
In Denmark she was recognized as a renowned Production Designer, who worked in film and television in Denmark and around Europe. Before her work in the film industry, she worked as an award-winning exhibition designer. Both her work in film and exhibitions has been nominated and awarded to several prizes including the Danish Design Vision prize, the English DAD prize and the Danish Ekko prize.
She is now focusing her attention full on her painting. Her solo exhibition in 2022, was a great success and her work has been sold world-wide: In Canada, the United States, England, France, Italy and Denmark off course.
Between 2017 and 2020 she lived with her family in Toronto, Canada, where she immersed herself in learning the intricate skills required to paint in water-colour and portraying the sublime landscapes she witnessed while traveling around the world.
Her art is particularly inspired by Canadian and Scandinavian nature.
DISTINCTIONS
2024
International Water Colour Masters - The excelence award
2024
International Water Colour Masters Group exhibition
2023
WIld Horses Gallery - Winter Group exhibition
2023
The Blue Atalie - Group Exebition
2022
Solo exhibition - In Honor of Nature - The Basement Gallery
2022
Travelling Grant from Scenografernes Rettigheds foundation.
2019
Selected for Red River Watercolor Society's 26th Annual National Juried Watermedia Exhibition and awarded "The Special Mention" price
2016
Arts Council Working Grant, Danish Arts Council
2014
Ekko Shortlist Awards - Winner - Best Production Design - Les Amours Purdues
2011
Robert Awards - Nominated - Best Production Design - Smukke Mennesker
2008
Robert Awards - Nominated - Best Production Design - Hvid Nat
2007
Robert Awards - Nominated - Best Production Design - Tempelriddernes Skat
2001
Design og Art Direction (D&AD), London - Exhibition Design - Nominated - NaturBornholm
2000
Danish Design Award, Visionary - Winner - NaturBornholm
1993
The Lindbury Prize, London - Nominated - New Theatre Designer of the year