Stay Connected 

Sunshine is a bright, bold painting, created using Beaumont’s signature cropping and stylising process, which reframes the figure outside of conventional views and contexts.

This piece is taken from a collection of works with source images on social media. Fascinated by the notion of the Instagram feed and Facebook posts being a ‘snapshot’ or real life, Beaumont used small sections of social media photos, cropped and reimaged as large scale paintings.

The abstraction of the original image and removal of identifying figurative features is intended to decontextualize the original image, and create an awkwardness and discomfort in viewing a painting with an unknown provenance.

 

“Particularly throughout Lockdown, I have found myself turning to social media for comfort and connectivity – which has been sometimes helpful and sometimes detrimental – so Sunshine, a work taken from an influencers holiday snaps from 2018, felt like the perfect piece for Stay Connected; a painted homage to the Instagram throwback”