Introduction to the work of Beverley Anne Little by Professor Brian Edwards, Edinburgh College of Art

Every one of Beverley Little’s works is an exploration and to some extent an idea. Little’s paintings are works of the mind as much of the hands. Even the drawings exhibit a sense of inquiry into their subject; they are never sketches but collections of lines, which carry meaning.

Though Little’s paintings and the drawings which are an essential beginning for the artist depict reality, they are not the work of a naïve artist. Instead, they are rich in purpose, analysis and content. Read article in full >

Press
“A painting whose central idea has remained in my mind for months is the one which won a prize for Beverly Little in the Young Contemporaries show. Entitled ‘Crucifixion’, it was remarkably successful, by entirely painterly means, in equating the body of Christ with the whole surface of the earth.”
Michael Shepherd, Sunday Telegraph

“The eye of the portraitist is manifest as a penetrating, disturbing, realism, feminine and unsentimental, in several studies of babies, of which the big oil, ‘Child with Mother’ is an excellent example… In her excellent drawings of heads and figures is a nervous intensity of line, somehow suggesting the dissolution, the impermanence, of flesh, of life.”
Arts Review

“It seems that she looks at the world with a questioning and worried look, then she chooses the simplest subjects, probably in order to prove that in fact nothing is simple… She expresses them graphically in a complex way.”
Bernhard Gauthron, La Revue Moderne

“Protection, warmth and intimacy are three themes that have guided her work, and these dominated all her chosen subjects: life and energy; animal vitality; beauty of the movement and body of the animal; sexual vitality; maturity; love ecstasy; communication and loneliness. So it’s hardly surprising that this exhibition of her work transcends mere intellectual interest, and offers every picture-lover true enjoyment.”
Wakefield Express

“Beverley Little shuns photographs because of their limiting two-dimensional aspect. When drawing from life she subtly eliminates distracting features and highlights those that appeal to her.”
Geraldine Sykes

“Beverley Anne Little’s ‘Unknown Mystery is her deeply personal and vivid comment on the awesome miracle of childbirth. The subject is tackled with a determined courage, and translated onto canvas with a comprehending maternal touch.”
Geraldine Sykes

“In her images of conception and the newly-born, Beverley Anne Little looks to realism as well as romanticism, which makes her work all the more graphic and moving.”
David Hammond

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