Beka Globe

I first saw Beka’s ‘Clover’ image at a show at An Lanntair, where I was invited to show one of my own sculptures. The size of it was key, altering your perception, changing your viewpoint it made you feel small, its subject confirmed it.

As I looked up to view the flower from an insects perspective, it became abstract, almost sculptural reminding me of monumental work I’d recently seen at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Printed in large scale format almost a metre square ‘Clover’ commands a powerful place in the collection. I’m also grateful to Beka for kindly allowing me to include the other images from the ‘Flowers’ series in our virtual gallery. I’m looking forward to exploring interesting CGI ways to display them.

Beka moved to the Isle of Harris when she was 11 years old. Her father, the renown sculptor Steve Dilworth, had relocated the family to find more inspirational surroundings, they certainly found it on Harris.

She studied photography at Napier University in Edinburgh in the 1990’s, and now returning to Harris to raise her own family, her photographic work has developed a unique style which reflects the dramatic environment and contrasting boundaries that these isles have to offer.

With the Hebridean flowers, Beka felt it was important to use natural light. All back lit, she wanted the feeling of being a fairy at the bottom of the garden, underneath and surrounded by flowers, photographing them almost from below looking up, like an insects eye view. Capturing a presence of being amongst the flowers.

In an interview  with David Lintern for Walk Highlands Beka recalls…

“The flowers were about going deep, into the detail, the structure of life, the organic side of Harris, still very much part of the landscape, but on another level. Everything is connected and I see the flowers as a whole new way of looking, from the perspective of a bee… They were taken with natural daylight in super macro, and in some cases using multiple stacked exposures to create a different perspective.”

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