Peta-Claire Beale is an illustrator, designer and printmaker. Her work is often classified as part of the new Romantic movement reflecting a desire for the local in the globalised world. By referencing symbolism and Romanticism, she approaches subjects in a multi-layered way to involve the viewer. By chosing mainly formal solutions, she guides the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events.
Her work directly responds to the environment using personal experiences from the artist as a starting point. By studying semiotics, signification, and communication, she creates recognizable elements in a situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of their own perception and must reconsider their position. Moments are depicited that only exist to punctuate the human drama to clarify our exisitence and to find the poetic meaning in everyday life. By emphasising aesthetics, she creates work through labour-intensive processes which can be seen explicitly as a personal exorcism ritual.
Exploring the depiction of gardens as recreational, political, and philosophical spaces with themes of arcadia, liberalism, romanticism, which reflects a study of English history and political ideologies. These images were designed to visually compare natural forms against architectural forms creating a space for a narrative and a didactic dialogue.