A Wellington-based painter and multimedia artist, Dhyana
Beaumont graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Canterbury
University and has recently completed her Master of Fine Arts with
a project that explored concepts of interactivity utilising
installation, painting and digital multimedia. Beaumont's artistic
practice is largely informed by moving images and drawing from
intuition to create work. Beaumont currently tutors in Digital
Media at WELTEC, the Wellington Institute of Technology.
Labyrinth - Journey Fulfilment is a prime example of
Beaumont's painterly practice and hails from a series of work in
which Beaumont explored the properties of less commonly used
materials such as encaustic wax and tar as an illumination of both
process and subject matter. By thickly layering the canvas of
Labyrinth - Journey Fulfilment with these materials,
Beaumont draws attention to the physicality of paint and the
literal 'illumination' at the end of a metaphorical journey.