Simon Beck (artist)
British artist
Simon Beck (born 1958) is a British snow artist and a former cartographer. Referred to as the world's first snow artist, he is primarily known for his landscape drawings and sculptures created from snow and sand. His work appeared in new media after he completed installations at Banff National Park in Alberta and Powder Mountain, Utah. He later participated in Minnesota's annual snow festival, "The Great Northern".
Biography
He was born in 1958 in London and later moved to the French Alps. He originally started his career in 2004. He obtained his civil engineering degree from Oxford University, and later worked as a cartographer, leaving cartography around 2009 and started to make large-scale snow drawings. He creates about thirty drawings every winter, primarily in the Alps. He creates artwork by walking over a mile on snowshoes which continues for around ten hours. Sometimes, he walks about 30 miles to complete a single work in snow and uses a compass to complete geometrical snow designs.
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