Beatrice Hoffman grew up in Munich/Germany, and arrived in this country nearly 40 years ago. It is then that she gathered the necessary courage to fulfil her long-harboured dream to become an artist. Three relatives in her family determined her to go ahead with her vocation.

Her grandparents (maternal side) were anthropologists, and had brought back to their home many African carvings, much of those nurturing her artistic inclination. The African sculptures she saw and touched, the craft of carving, and the rituals, meanings and myths entwined with these objects.

Her great aunt (paternal side) Lucie Rie OBE was a famous potter in the UK during the 1950s is an emigrant (though involuntary) like herself, whose fulfilled life and passion for her own art inspired, encouraged and set an example.

Beatrice caught up on her missing artistic expertise with an Art Foundation course in Lowestoft, followed by a sculpture degree at the Norwich School of Art. Under the tutelage and inspiration of the Brazilian sculptor Ana Maria Pacheco, the head of art school at the time, Beatrice Hoffman created many of her early carved wooden and stone figures.

After a postgraduate art therapy degree, she has divided her time between sculpting, sculpture teaching and working as an art therapist in special schools. She raised two sons, and as they have both grown up, she can devote herself more to her sculpture .

Since arriving near Oxford in 2014, Hoffman has spent much time reworking old sculptures, creating new versions – partly due to a devastating studio fire just previous to moving, that destroyed all her sculpture moulds.

Beatrice Hoffman creates stylised abstract and figurative sculptures, using clay and plasticine, cast in bronze or bronze resin.

Her sculptures add refinement and beauty to homes , inside and outside, and appeal to interior and garden architects.With her stylish and elegant sculptures, Beatrice Hoffman achieves simplicity and abstraction, to add intensity and clarity to her creations.

Commissioned to create bespoke pieces, from small-scale private collections to a large hospital entrance centre-piece, Beatrice has exhibited widely throughout the UK and across Europe, and sold worldwide.

She seeks psychological depth, and is drawn to meaningful themes on the interface of mythology, psychology and spirituality: inner strength, serenity, human identity and relationships, trust, tenderness, ambivalence and love – to name but a few.

She hopes to enable engagement and contemplation: for the viewer to find reflected in her sculptures a feeling or experience, and through this silent communion find empathy, beauty and peace.

This is what makes her sculptures so perfectly suited for being lived and interacted with on a daily basis, in the house, the garden or a public space.