Tinka Bechert's deconstructed landscapes evoke the disenchanted. Humanity's relationship with Nature is reduced to recreational activities and encounters at rest stops with picturesque viewing platforms. The natural landscape is utilized to suites our needs, creature comforts and lifestyles. Bechert's narrative and geographical paintings are telling of a collective fragmented view of our interaction with the landscape. In this context Becherts mapped frameworks of geographical locations suggest man's heavily trodden connection to the natural world.
Tinka Bechert is a contemporary painter who lives and works in Silgo, Ireland. Raised in Berlin, Germany, Bechert moved to Ireland in 1996. Bechert received her BFA with First Class Honours from the Institute of Technology in Silgo, Ireland in 2003. In 2004 she was nominated for the Syrlin Art Prize in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2006 she was awarded an Arts Council Residency to the Leighton Artists' Colony at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
