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British artist creates snow art works in China

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2017-03-16 08:30China Daily Editor: Mo Hong'e ECNS App Download
British artist Simon Beck has produced more than 250 drawings on snowscapes around the world since 2004. (Photo provided to China Daily)

British artist Simon Beck has produced more than 250 "drawings" on snowscapes around the world since 2004. (Photo provided to China Daily)

Artist Simon Beck's tools are small and simple: a compass and a pair of snowshoes. His canvases? Snow-covered wintry landscapes.

His artworks are giant and sophisticated-complex geometric designs, each bigger than 100 square meters, drawn by his footprints.

Looking from above, a viewer will be amazed by the blend of intricacy with simplicity in those images, just like crop circles but created through hours of walking in the snow field.

The 57-year-old Briton has been doing those snowscapes every winter since he began in 2004 at a ski resort of Les Arcs in France. Since then, he has trodden on snows of many textures and locations, producing more than 250 "drawings" in different scales.

On March 8, Beck came to Chongli, Hebei province, some three hours' drive northwest from Beijing.

  

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