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The extreme weather of the past
few weeks has meant a slow start to the new year. That
said, there’s plenty to be getting on with. The
prestigious Henley Arts Festival
have agreed to
have me back for a second year running, so the next 5
months will see me producing a new series of work for
the 2010 event which takes place from the 7th through to
the 11th of July.
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.”