Portraits and landscapes of exceptional
depth, tone, atmosphere, light and perspective.
Although he excels in portraits Beattie has an equal passion for landscape art. Decades of experience in the Australian bush combined with 16 years of travel throughout Cambodia have given him extraordinary insight to create Cambodian rural scenes that boast incredible depth, tone, atmosphere, light and perspective. Works of art that require great skill and can take up to several hundred hours to accomplish.
Each include up to 40 layers of tones, and every brush stroke mixed from just three primary colors yellow, red and blue. Beattie’s impressionistic fine art skills directly contribute to his spectacular works in fine art photography, being one of only a handful of accomplished fine art photographers in the world that also excel in fine art painting.
His portrait from life of Sara Henderson, international best selling author, Australian business woman of the year (twice), Australian outback icon and representative of Breast Screen Australia has also gained substantial international attention. Sara Henderson died from cancer shortly after this portrait was painted.
His company Wild Cambodia Press and his photographic products have promoted Cambodia throughout the world since 2009 contributing greatly to Cambodia’s tourism development and economy.
Beattie’s artworks hang in private collections anywhere between Australia and Switzerland. His photographic products including his book ‘ My Cambodia ’ cover the globe.
