Bec Winnel
is an Australian visual artist, specialised in portraits. She works mainly with traditional tools, such as pencils, pastels and watercolour. Her style is soft and translucent, but eyes are always drawn quite strong. In a time-lapse video (link below), you clearly see how her process works. Winnel starts out with one eye, hints the other eye, and then the face is built around the eyes and gradually takes shape and gets structure. The finished artwork retains the strong and clear eyes, perhaps being the main portal the soul of the portrait, and the surrounding face is there almost as a decoration or accessory, while still emphasising the spirit of the expression in the eyes. As most of her portraits soften at the edges, there is a dreamlike quality to many of her images. Portraits are interesting, as the human face is our main representation of identity. It also shows age, mood and emotions.
When talking about Bec Winnel development as an artist, she emphasises that she is a self-taught artist, and it is probably true that all good artists are people who worked hard to teach themselves to excel in their art. She also has formal training i graphic design from Swinburne University in Melbourne.
Up until recently she was employed as a graphic designer, while developing her own art at night, but she is now working on her own, full-time, with many exciting projects ahead.
Her works has been shown both in Australia and the US and she has a long list of prominent clients for her commercial works.
You can buy both limited edition and open edition prints from her web site. Start collecting now!
Time-lapse video of Bec Winnel drawing
