Becky Buchanan is an emerging artist who uses mixed media such as floor resin and complementary materials in her large-scale abstract paintings to explore contrasts between the natural and artificial. She has gained recognition for her inventive use of media and daring techniques in works like "Vibrations" that use unintentional actions to create vibrant textures and patterns. Buchanan's work is represented by Edgar Modern gallery and has been shown internationally, demonstrating her contemporary vision through juxtapositions of environments and materials.

1. BECKY BUCHANAN
Vibrations

2. VIBRATIONS
Edgar Modern
Bartlett Street
Bath
BA1 2EE
Tel: +44(0)1225 443746 / 07940 597 757
www.edgarmodern.com
Brunch
Mixed media on board
90 x 122 cm

3. Running through the association of form and colour lies instinct.
Becky Buchanan, recent first class graduate of Somerset College, Taunton (University of Plymouth), is progressively becoming
prominent and steadily emerging in the challenging and competitive art world.
Her work concentrates on the contrast between the natural and artificial through a mixture of media, in particular floor resin, and a
variety of complementary materials. Becky has already begun to gain recognition for her inventive use of the media and her daring
accomplishments.
‘Vibrations’ embraces the technique of her work, her inspirations through visual surprises and unintentional actions and, finally, the way
she deliberately bleeds ink and colour across the canvass creating a wavy and vibrant feel. Her large-scale abstract canvasses
articulate freshness, boldness and dynamism. The materials she uses produce a distinctive finish with abstract elements.
After defining the ideas on Photoshop, her paintings are composed of an armoury of different techniques in order to achieve the best
and the most unpredicted contrast and visual impact. Her work is hard to achieve and to ‘read’ yet tests the viewer.
For Becky, ‘Every painting is like a puzzle; a visual field of exploration that challenges you to find new solutions’. Layers of different
shapes and marks can possess a narrative behind them or indeed, may not. In fact, stories from her work are mostly for the spectator to
decide. Her work aims to embellish the world by making it uplifting. For Becky, a finished work comes from being satisfied with it and
using a bright colour pallet, which makes her smile.
In Becky’s works, we see the desire of dissimilarity and association to express daily life events: ‘I am primarily inspired by the
juxtaposition of the urban against the rural landscape, these contrasts become manifest through the contrast of visual language on the
canvas. Bold gestural marks sit alongside carefully painted geometrics; and highly patterned areas play against clear glossy layers. In
doing this I hope both to challenge, captivate the viewer and express the contrasts that we experience everyday’.
Coming back to the media Becky Buchanan uses, we can see how they make her work unique. We can also say that they portray a
contemporary edge. Her quick and energetic work has a finish that is uniquely artificial. A ‘vibration’ expresses again the effect that her
techniques induce on the canvas: a watercolour effect. Resin maintains a certain bleed, brightness and even when it is dry it has a liquid
finish. By looking at ‘Vibrations’ you feel both a visual and emotional motivation. It is as if her work conducts energy and confidence in
you.
Becky’s work is a celebration of the ‘big, bold, brave and beautiful’ [Edgar Modern].

4. Originally, a fabric buyer, Becky Buchanan has the eye for texture and the association or contrast of colour. The use of a quite ambitious
material that is less easy to work with states confidence and initiative in her work.
Becky supports strongly Francis Bacon’s sentiment that ‘all painting is an accident’. Although, a canvas is not pure chance and can
become a fusion between an accidental happening and a directed modification. Many artists influence her; some of whom include Fiona
Rae, De Gornay, Pia Fries and Antony Micelli. Buchanan is also fond of the work of Bernard Frize and Alexis Harding for their innovative
manipulation of paint media. Now experimenting with metal leaf by either applying it to the painted pieces or, more recently, working on
an entirely metal leafed base. Based on the edge of the Blackdown Hills in Somerset, Becky has worked towards her first solo show
held by her gallery (Edgar Modern, Bath) at the beginning of November 2010.
Becky has now become a ‘mysterious and continuous struggle with chance’. Her potential has quickly been spotted nationally and
internationally through the work of Edgar Modern. She has additionally won representation in 2013 by Cube Gallery Bristol and London.
Her large-scale mixed media pieces of the Edgar Modern Gallery depict an adventurous route demonstrating a surprisingly cautious
balance between disorder and control. In purposely letting ink and colour flow and be absorbed by the canvass, Becky creates an
amazing chaos.
The challenge thrown down by the artist to the viewer, using the juxtaposition of environments and the blend of materials and the
contrast of results they achieve, shows the contemporary vision and confidence of the artist, Becky Buchanan.

5. Parade
mixed media on board
120 x 120 cm

6. Riley with wings
2013
Metal Leaf
Mixed Media on Board
150 x 150 cm

7. Gold Run
2013
Mixed Media on Board
50 x 50 cm

8. Courage
2012
Metal Leaf
Mixed Media on Board
120 x 120 cm

9. ✈
Off to bed
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

10. Angels and Demons
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

11. Mexican Wave
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm
Sun and showers
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

13. Sunday
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

14. Gilding and Lily
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

15. Where the wild things
are
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

16. Brunch
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

17. Sound Recording
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

18. Polka Dot Dress
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

19. Drum Roll
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
122 x 104 cm

20. Wall Series 2
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
121 x 121 cm

21. Wall Series 1
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
121 x 121 cm

22. After Irvin
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
121 x 121 cm

23. Clockwork and Orange
2013
Oil on canvas
Mixed Media on Board
120 x 120 cm

24. Biography :
Born in 1976, Becky Buchanan is a recent first class graduate of Somerset College Taunton (University of Plymouth), Becky
Buchanan is a promising new talent in painting. Her large, fresh, lucid canvasses are steeped with colour and visual intrigue, and
reference pure abstraction with remarkable maturity.
Buchanan initially pursued a career in fashion in London, which may well have informed her evident eye for colour and form.
Buchanan shows exclusively with Edgar Modern.
Statement :
‘Painting for me serves as a metaphor for life in our times. I reflect the instability that we face environmentally and economically in
my strategy of painting intuitively with often un-mastered media or techniques on a large scale.
My current use of resin paint has lent my work a contemporary edge and by virtue of its properties has allowed me to explore the
concept of time; the physicality of a painting expressing a ‘moment’.
I am primarily inspired by the landscape, though this manifests itself through a fascination with contrasting visual languages.’

25. VIBRATIONS
2011
Affordable Art Fair London Edgar Modern
The Avenue London Art Movement Solo exhibition
‘Minding the Media‘ Bath Edgar Modern Solo exhibition
Affordable Art Fair Brussels Alicia David
2012
Affordable Art Fair London Edgar Modern
London Art Fair London Edgar Modern
2013
London Art Fair London Edgar Modern
Affordable Art Fair Brussels Edgar Modern
Affordable Art Fair Stockholm Cube Gallery
Autumn Show Windsor ICE Gallery Group Show
Selected Exhibitions/Shows:

26. VIBRATIONS
Selected Exhibitions/Shows:
2007
White Space Taunton Solo exhibition
2008
Open exhibition Bristol Paintworks Gallery Group Show
2009
Degree Show Taunton Brewhouse Group Show
‘Muse‘ Bath Edgar Modern Group Show
2010
Chance to Shine Bath Edgar Modern Two artist show
Binham Grange Minehead Summer exhibition Group Show
Atkins Gallery Street Summer Exhibition Group Show
Affordable Art fair London Edgar Modern

27. Edgar Modern
Bartlett Street
Bath BA1 2EE
Tel: +44(0)1225 443746
www.edgarmodern.com