Born 1959 in May-Day hospital Croydon greater south London. The only class-room subjects Brent Beaumont ever showed any interest in were art work and model making. He had a total and absolute disregard for all other academic subjects. All through out his entire eleven years of education he clashed violently with his teachers and all authoritarian figures and spent a lot of the time standing outside the class room for disruptive behaviour.

During Brent Beaumont’s last year at school after learning that his final art exam would be a ‘Still-Life’ subject matter, his art teacher told him that in his opinion it would be a total waste of time sitting the exam and accused Brent of not having any imagination. This statement totally shattered any confidence that Brent had in his own artistic ability and failed to sit the CSE art exam. It therefore comes as a complete surprise to most people to learn that Brent Beaumont to this day has no formal training or any art qualifications to his name. Many years later Brent returned to visit his old school and was invited to sit down to lunch by the very same art teacher who asked Brent in front of a table full of his colleagues what sort of work he was doing. Brent told him that he was a sculptor who sold his work all over the world. Brent couldn't resist the opportunity of telling him that as a teacher he had totally failed his profession by not encouraging his student to sit an examination. However,never one to hold a grudge with a smile on his face Brent shook hands with his old art teacher and said "Maybe one day I'll make you famous"

Even though Brent found it easy the idea of drawing a bowl of fruit from his imagination and correctly interpreting the light and shade was not something Brent could take seriously. Brent's idea of an art exam or an artistic challenge was to replicate something to near perfection. Most of the time he spent his art lessons copying small black and white pictures of either ‘Pele’ or ‘Bruce Lee’ and making enlarged perfectly scaled copies in colour and found all other forms of art totally boring.”

After Brent Beaumont left secondary school in the summer of 1975 he dabbled with art but never took it seriously. In 1980 he got a job as a pen and ink illustrator unfortunately the contract only lasted for a year. Brent had the ability of being able to work very fast when doing portraits. However Brent also found this work unfulfilling and become bored and disillusioned with his art and apart from doing six water colour paintings for his new apartment he did no further art work for the next ten years. “I knew that I had to be creative, when I was not being artistically creative it felt like my life had no purpose to it. I realised that the medium of art that I was using had to change”

“Since 1968 Brent had become a fanatical Brazil football supporter and he said that the first World Cup trophy the ‘Jules Rimet’ cup was the most beautiful trophy that he had ever seen. So in 1991 he decided to try to make a full life size replica out of plasticine, more for his own amusement than anything else. However after completing the replica he was more than pleased with the results. So in 1994 Brent went on to make a replica of the current World Cup trophy ‘The FIFA World Cup’ using as a base material ‘Polyfilla’ and once again he was extremely pleased with the results. “I realised almost by accident and as a result of my own amusement that my artistic talents also included highly detailed fine art replicated sculpting.”

“Sometime during 1997 whilst sitting in a dentist’s waiting room thumbing through a magazine I came across an A4 colour picture of ‘Tutankhamun’. Even though I had seen many pictures of ‘Tutankhamun’ many times before, for some reason I couldn’t forget the impact that this particular picture had on me. I soon started to collect as many different pictures from as many different angles of ‘Tutankhamun’ almost to the point of obsession and stuck them on my kitchen wall. The next two years was spent just studying them. I eventually made a start on the project journey that would take me a total of five years to complete”.

Brent Beaumont set himself a challenge: to re-create one of the most famous objects from antiquity - The Gold Mask of Tutankhamun. Never having attempted anything of this size or complexity before, and not having seen the original, he worked from photographs and measurement of the mask to create a full-sized copy, carved from a well known brand of wall-filler on a base of wood, wire and paper. The finished sculpture was then moulded and cast in resin to produce a hollow mask. The ears, royal insignia and beard had to be made and cast separately and attached to the mask, which was then carefully gilded in 23.5 carat gold leaf. The details of the inlay were painted on. Brent's attention to detail is amazing. Every single piece of inlay is shown, including all the areas of damage and missing pieces, and the long inscription on the rear of the mask. He has also reproduced the separate gold necklace found attached to the mask. The result is one of the best replicas of the mask ever seen and it is stunning when viewed closely - something that cannot be done with the original. Brent hopes that collectors of Egyptian replicas and also some museums will be interested in the mask, which he will reproduce as a limited edition replica. It has to be the ultimate replica for anyone's collection.

Brent Beaumont was asked to describe his ability to replicate other original pieces of art work.

“I would describe my artistic ability as a ‘Sculpting Copyist’, I don’t know why I copy things the way I do. I just feel an overwheming compulsion to do so. The basic criterion is usually to replicate original works of art that either doesn't exist anymore or would be to difficult for members of the public to gain access to. I want to give people the opportunity of seeing close up or owning something special that otherwise would be out of their reach. Some times people criticise me for not being original like my art teacher at school but I really can't help it. When I was younger my ability and compulsion to replicate used to frighten me as I couln't understand why i did it, but now I don’t question it I just submit to it totally. Art is female and and when she calls me I have a love affair with her. I don’t choose the subject matter, it chooses me and if my work gives you pleasures and puts a smile on your face then that makes me feel fantastic”

In the near future Brent also intends to sculpt a full life size bust of Akhenaten-Tutankhamun's father and a full life size bust of Queen Nefertiti, Akhenaten's wife.