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At present, I am working on a collection of new pieces for
the 2009 Henley Arts
Festival where I will be exhibiting
from Wednesday July 8th through to Sunday July 12th.
Following the continued succcess of our lifedrawing workshops
I and my friend
and fellow artist Ali Cockrean
will be tutoring
another Beginners workshop on Saturday 27th of June
followed by an Improvers class on Sunday 28th of June.
Both will be take place at Longwick Hall in
Buckinghamshire. If you are interested in 'having a go',
please contact myself via the link at the top of this
page, or Ali via her site, for more information.
About Ben
I was
born in Bournemouth in 1971. After attending a foundation
course at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and
Design, where I specialised in painting, I went on to
complete my BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art at Central &
Saint Martins College of Art in London. As well as a
professional artist, I have also qualified as a
conservation quality picture framer.
Creating work in a wide variety of media; charcoal,
pastels, oils and watercolours, I am most comfortable
working from life in my still lives, landscapes and
portraits. Whatever the subject matter, and the medium of
execution, I am preoccupied with light and the way it
denotes form and mood. For this reason acrylics, with their
quick drying times, have become the main medium in which
most of my work is now executed. They allow a reaction to a
subject to be recorded with an immediacy that neither oils
or watercolours, by their natures, can facilitate.
“I regard myself as a
traditionalist, believing that, ‘learning to see’ and
drawing are the necessary foundations from which work of
quality, however diverse, (abstract through to
representative), can evolve.”