A CREATIVE
LIFE
Alicia Beech never set out to become the artist she is today. For years she painted around the edges of her life.
Then life changed...
Growing up as an only child, Alicia remembers being quite content spending time alone drawing, colouring in, painting and writing. Mystical creatures, magical landscapes and horses were the predominant themes.
In 2015, she felt an overwhelming desire to start creating again. She experimented. A lot. Different techniques, different ideas. It was through this exploration that she fell in love with abstract art. It felt like an obsession. Even when she wasn’t painting, it was on her mind.
Her work began to sell in New Zealand and overseas.
And then life happened....
In 2018, Alicia was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. Following a year of treatment, she found herself looking at life, and the world around her, differently.
That same year Alicia and her partner moved to a lifestyle property in Te Puna. With it came a large garden and, somewhat unexpectedly, an interest in gardening.
Hands in the earth, she began to heal
The garden became another place to create.
Fascinated by the colour and personalities of plants, Alicia began planting different varieties of flowers together, experimenting by growing them alongside each other so that as they grew they would create unique compositions that slowly changed with the seasons.
Without intending it, the garden began finding its way into her paintings.
By 2022, gardening and painting had become two parts of the same creative life. Each one fuelled the other. The garden gave her endless reasons to paint, and painting gave her new reasons to look.
With nature as her muse, Alicia’s style continues to evolve, with imagination, colour and freedom remaining central to her practice.
Each painting takes many hours to create. Colours, motifs, patterns and compositions emerge intuitively before gradually giving way to the precision and considered detail that has come to define her work.
Alicia works from her lovingly renovated home studio in Te Puna, Tauranga, with her studio buddy Mr Bear by her side.
Her work has exhibited in New Zealand and Australia, with her first solo exhibition, Finding Eden, at Turua Gallery in Auckland, selling out. Her work is held in private collections in New Zealand and overseas.
Alicia's studio is open by appointment to view available paintings or discuss a commission.
EXHIBITIONS & PRESS
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Kindred Exhibition 12 - 24 June 2026 - Alicia Beech & Helen Dean at Turua Gallery
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Focus Magazine June 2026 - https://focusmagazine.co.nz/kindred-parallel-creative-journeys-unite-at-turua-gallery/
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Verve Magazine - June Issue 2026 - https://www.vervemagazine.co.nz/art-of-june/
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Master Builders House Of The Year Magazine 2025 - Trends Feature 'Dopamine Hit'
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Turua Gallery "The Happiness Project" Group Exhibition 3 - 15 May 2025
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Turua Gallery "Hip Hip Hooray" Group Exhibition 16 - 28 February 2024
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"Turua Tiny Show" Group Exhibition, Turua Galler, St Helliers, Auckland - December 2023
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Solo Exhibition - Finding Eden, Turua Gallery, Auckland 13 - 25 October 2023 (Sold Out)
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ArtZone Magazine - Issue 93 - Summer 2022 - https://www.artzone.co.nz/
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"Happiness Project" Group Exhibition, Turua Gallery, St Helliers, Auckland - October 2022
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"Turua Tiny Show" Group Exhibition, Turua Gallery, St Helliers, Auckland - August 2022
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Jumbled @ The Sonic, 33 - 35 Sale Street, Orange, Australia
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Art / Edit + Interior Design Magazine
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March Edition 2021- Feature - After the rain
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Bloom Group Exhibition - January 2021
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Jumbled @ The Sonic, 33 - 35 Sale Street, Orange, Australia
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Miles Art Award Finalist 2020
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Tauranga Art Gallery Exhibition, Tauranga
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The Black Door Gallery
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251 Parnell Road, Parnell, 1052, Auckland, New Zealand
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MCF Interiors
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198 Maunganui Road, Mt Maunganui, New Zealand
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The Little Gallery
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228 Main Rd Tairua, New Zealand
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Fine Print Co by Corporate Art Australia, Unit 13 110 Kortum Drive Burleigh Qld 4220, Australia
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Display Exhibition - Kathleen Kilgour Centre, Tauranga,2017
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Display Exhibition - Ignition Tauranga, 2017
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Uno Magazine December Issue 2016
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Focus Magazine
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Exhibition - Fresh Art, Fresh Start, Creative Tauranga 2016
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