Bebe Landers
San Miguel de Allende
Bebe Landers paints rhythmic, vibrantly colorful visions of the people, places, and things that inspire her deeply.
MessageBebe Lander's Artworks be it paintings, murals or designed environments have been in demand since her first days out of Art School. Her clients range from upscale private clientele who desire to enhance their home, to many corporate headquarters where installations of painting series in the Public areas and Murals and painted environments in the Manufacturing plants enhanced moral and added beauty and interest. In addition Bebe was commissioned to install murals in large Public spaces for the City of Toronto, City of North York, City of Hamilton and City of Montreal.
Upon graduating from AOCA in Toronto, Canada, Bebe formed her own company, Mural Graphics Unlimited, to change the undervalued environments in Factories where employees spent long days doing repetitive monotonous work.
Bebe was inspired to affect positive change by altering environments by the famous Mexican Muralists, Diego Rivera, Orozco and Clemente. She saw how they painted bold figurative narratives, that granted a voice to the disenfranchised. Her company specialized in the design and installation of enormous painted murals in the manufacturing sector. The murals and multi hued environments were transformative to the most dreary of workplaces. Plant managers recorded a definite boost to the morale of the workforce and a better safety rate. Painting narrative stories on 40'h x 100' long walls and painting the pipes and equipment into gigantic colourful sculptures was rewarding but after becoming a mother of two she transitioned out of working inside factories.
Bebe was commissioned to create a series of large paintings for data communications giant, Northern Telecom's corporate headquarters, and other major corporate clients quickly followed. Each Company had a unique design brief, and the style and execution of each painting series were different. The company was transitioning into Retail store design and painting murals in restaurants and public venues. The murals were entertaining a different audience with each new project.
As the wall artworks became conceptually and technically more complex, painterly and renaissance inspired, Bebe moved into residential interior design world, pairing with many of Toronto's top ten designers to paint old world finishes on walls, ceilings and furniture as the desire for wall finishes blossomed in the latter 1990's.
Bebe's company, was the premiere company in Toronto. Bebe Landers taught, trained and hired decorative painters and fine artists in the arts of murals, faux and old world painting.
Seven years ago a move to California created a life changing opportunity to study anew amongst great plain air masters, ( as an exhibiting member of LPAPA in Laguna Beach, Ca) and be inspired by the breathtaking landscapes and seascapes of California.
Series of lush oil painted canyon landscapes, gardens and seascapes have followed and a renewed flurry of figurative painting focused on portraits, and women in their urban environments experiencing a range of emotion.
Since 2020 the painting studio is in San Miguel de Allende where Bebe Landers continues to be commissioned by a who's who of entertainers to create paintings and portraits that have special and exclusive meaning for them.
Bebe Landers began to doing painting workshops in Laguna Beach teaching groups of aspiring creative artists plain air painting, and oil painting of the Impressionists. It was another form of joy to see the wonder and delight in the faces of students when in 2 hours they had produced their first masterpiece with Bebe Landers teaching methods.
It has become a passion for Bebe to mentor and give back the joy and confidence of painting to those who seek it.
Statement
Bebe Landers paints rhythmic, vibrantly colorful visions of the people, places, and things that inspire her deeply. Her paintings fascinate and hold your attention thru dynamic compositions based on sacred geometry. Bebe delights in applying sensuous textured oil paint with palette knife, brushes, scrapers, and cloth. The artist’s every stroke creates emotional intensity expressed in the choice of subject matter, be it landscape, streetscape, portrait or still life. The physicality of the brushwork and rich intensity of the colors reach far beyond the perceived world of realism and embraces the inner sensual, emotional and mysterious qualities of the subjects. Interlaced meanings emerge, compelling you to contemplate the story being told. Bebe uses dramatic color contrasted with subtle hues, interplay of light and dark. The resultant paintings are joyful luminous, mysterious and exciting magically connecting people, place and time.
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