Beatrice Hoffman @ Broomhill
Beatrice Hoffman
We have asked the artist to provide a statement about their work, an edited personal history, and a selection of exhibitions and commissions. The content here is entirely their words and selection. Works illustrated here have been chosen by the artist.
The works shown on this page are not necessarily on display at Broomhill.
Some other works by Beatrice Hoffman
The Artist Speaks
Beatrice Hoffman is a figurative sculptor working in bronze or bronze-resin. She is widely exhibiting in and near London, the Cotswold, Suffolk, Bristol, Birmingham, Oxford, Amsterdam and Munich.
Her style is expressive, distorting the human figure, or the head to convey an emotion or human experience.
A collection of small bronze (and bronze-resin) figures express various states of being or feelings: dancing or tense and expectant,or restful and contained. Sometimes they are light-hearted or humorous; they often give a solid, earthy impression.
There are sculptures of both single figures and couples; the latter focus on the relationship between man and woman in an unsentimental and non-provocative way. Their expression ranges from the purely observational to emotions like desire, protectiveness, being fulfilled or at ease with each other.
Like her larger work, the figures attempt to convey an archetypal experience, and aspire to simplify the human figure, in order to reveal the essence of a state of being or of a movement.
Her heads are less concerned with portraiture than with an archetypal experience. They have been stylised and distorted: hard angles and juxtaposed with rounded surfaces. Size, shape and proportions of the features are being experimented with, and simplified into clear lines and smooth surfaces. Multiple heads are being held together by means of curves, caves and arches.
