Lone Bech

Website: lonebechart.blogspot.com

Country: Deutschland

It is a true pleasure for Lone to portray people who have influenced and enriched her life; among whom are artists such as Astor Piazzolla, whose tango music she learned to love during a stay in Buenos Aires, or the writer Marguerite Duras, whose texts were a source of understanding and enjoyment of French language and culture, or her friend German actress Petra Kopf, who introduced her to texts by the poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Hilde Domin. It is important to her to give a true and loving expression of what she herself is actually able to see with her eyes and to perceive with her intuition. Her portraits are mainly made of acrylic, watercolour and encaustic; the latter is a very exciting medium to work with (beeswax, resin and pigments processed with heat-producing iron, air and flame) and it can result in very expressive portraits. She was born in 1943 in Denmark, where she grew up during the time Danish Design took shape, which profoundly inspires her. Lone worked many years as a banker and counselling clairvoyant in various countries. Today the awarded artist lives and works in Germany 40 KM north of Lake Constance. In 2012 she started taking classes by acclaimed artists from various countries. Since 2019 exhibitions took place in Germany, Denmark, USA and Switzerland, which in 2022 culminated in a solo exhibition on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York.

Angela Merkel, 2023, 30x45 cm, aquarell on paper

Martha Argerich, pianist, 2021, 35x50 cm, watercolor on paper

Niels Arestrup, as composer in the film Meeting Venus

Petra Kopf, German actress, 2022, 40x30x3 cm, acrylic on board

Rudolf Nurejew, 2019, 50x70 cm, acrylic on canvas

Portrait of Peter, 2022, 40x30x3 cm, encaustic on board

young Louis Armstrong, 2018, 60x80x2 cm, acrylic on canvas

Young man in front of a waterfall, 2021, 80x60x2 cm, acrylic on paper board