Beca Beeby

Beca Beeby is a maker living in the legend-rich landscape of Gwent, where she finds her inspiration in the small, beautiful details of the plants, insects and lichen that live in the landscape & her own garden.

Beca combines her love of Science and Ethnobotany with her skills in making with metals and clay, to produce unique pieces of wearable and (usually) useable sculpture, which she hopes will spur in the audience, the same awe and wonder for the incredible beauty and interconnectedness of the natural world that she herself has.

Beca’s background as a blacksmith and working with cast iron have influenced the contrasting finishes Beca uses on her jewellery, which is utilised to enhance the textures and makers marks, and which continue to develop and polish as they are worn.

As her work spans the ‘faint, wobbly line between fine art and craft’, Beca sometimes struggles to decide where her work fits and what to call herself, but as the act of making is such an important part of her development, the title ‘Maker’ seems to be right.

"I hope my work could be thought hewn from the earth; to have grown at the bottom of the sea; emerged from a cocoon or constructed by a society of huge insects. Experimentation is a huge part of my practice, each piece of work inspiring and informing the next."