Terrence Higgins Trust - 2024, Timed Auction

Loren Beven is a contemporary artist based in Deal, Kent, recognised for her unique screenprint-paintings. She studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the London College of Printmaking. In the 1990s, she joined artists’ collective Studio Voltaire in a disused tram shed on Voltaire Road in Clapham. Living between London and South East Asia, she spent a significant amount of time in Nepal where she was artist-in-residence and later print making tutor in the Fine Art department at Kathmandu University. She had a large solo exhibition at Kathmandu’s prestigious Siddhartha Gallery.

Endless Summer – Sprinkle Cone is part of a series of hand-glittered prints with a whiff of seaside nostalgia. Capturing the spirit and language of classic British seaside towns, these bold prints evoke the romance of a sunny summer by the beach and summon up wistful memories of childhood. Seen in the context of Beven’s larger body of work that explores notions of place, these sparkly iconic symbols act as a foil, and offer a different kind of romance.

Donated by Loren Beven

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