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Selena Beaudry is #OhSoNatalie

I deeply admire Selena Beaudry’s work. Her remarkable sense of colour strikes a profound chord within me. Her abstractions are both welcoming and immersive, offering an experience that unfolds its intricacies the more you engage with it. It feels at “home” in any space.

Selena Beaudry’s Artist Statement:

“All of my work is created by a series of marks or perhaps the lack of marks. At some point along the way I began to cut up drawings. Cutting up my work led to a rediscovery of my visual language. It brought up questions in my studio practice. What is a mark and what can I do with it? How can I push these marks in new and different directions? Through this formal exercise I created three bodies of work — PILES™ collages, collages (cutout) and paintings."

QUESTION 1

What is your favourite colour & why?

I have too many favourite colours to pick just one. I am interested in how colours interact with each other and can help create the mood of a piece. At the moment I have been playing with purples, browns and greens.

QUESTION 2

What are you working on at the moment that you find exciting?

A series of new large drawings/ works on paper. Also a line of wallpaper in collaboration with Barrie Benson.

QUESTION 3

I love your recent drawings. What inspired you to start making drawings recently?

Making drawings is something I always do. All of the work begins with drawings. They are like a journal for me. I work on smaller drawings at home but have recently started to make larger drawings in the studio. I started making for them for a wallpaper that was included in my show that is now on view at Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC.

QUESTION 4

Where do you go for / what do you do for inspiration?

I find inspiration all around me. Whether it is a walk to the studio or through the park. I also go and see a lot of art.

QUESTION 5

Do you have a cherished object you would never part with? What is it & why?

I have a few wallpaper rolls that are from my father’s family’s old wallpaper factory. One has been made into a lamp and the other two sit in front of my fireplace. I’ve always loved them for the objects they are and how they tell a story about my family history. I have been thinking about them even more now that I have begun to create wallpaper.

See how we have worked together in our latest Mrs and Mr Bateman installation.

Follow her on Instagram @SelenaBeaudry.