Ben Mosley

Action painting - or, more broadly speaking, abstract expressionism - is a style of painting which artist Ben Mosley has used to powerful effect to capture the drama of everyday life and the environment around him. Like his predecessors in this genre, Wilem and Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline and Lee Krasner, Mosley values spontaneity and creates his images by stroking paint directly on to each canvas in a gestural, dynamic fashion.

"To mark make is a necessity I undertake each time I create a new piece of art, a journey that I want to overcome and each new painting is a challenge. When my brush touches the canvas for the first time I become a composer of shape and pattern. I sculpt and mould images, and build form through the exaggeration of shape and pattern that convey my passion for the moment. The sense of losing control and letting go to gain control is a method I use frequently.

"˜I paint straight on to the canvas because I wish to maintain a certain amount of spontaneity in each painting', Mosley said. "˜I believe this makes each painting individual and gives them a unique personality. Because I want to capture the dynamism, excitement and movement of the environment around me, my brushwork is gestural, angular and vig...

2000-2003 BA Honours Fine Art Degree, University Of Liverpool
1998-1999 Btec Diploma Art Foundation, University of Hertfordshire

Solo Exhibitions
2015 Austin Texas Sonderwall Studio
2013 The Guardian Online Beautiful Game exhibition
2012 The London Olympic Games, The Fringe
2011 - present “Wembley Moments”, Wembley Stadium, 40 paintings and a mural depicting England and Wembley’s finest moments 2011 “Olympic”, Weston Park, 50 paintings celebrating the Olympic Games
2009 “A Sporting Life”, The Wall Gallery
2006 “The Beautiful Game”, Gallery 93


Notable commissions
2014 Commissioned by McDonalds and selected as the UK Artist for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil
2014 Mosley’s Painting “Fans Of The World” displayed on McDonalds Fry Boxes across the world
2014 Mosley commissioned by McDonalds to create a live painting at their World Cup celebrity launch party in New York “ Team Spirit
2014 Commissioned by Spinneys South African supermarket to paint a tribute piece of South African Rugby legend Joost Van Der Westhuizen 2014 Commissioned by the Emirates Golf Club to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Dubai Dessert Golf Classic Open
2013 Wembley Stadium, Large Scale Mural “History” The Story Of Wembley, based on the Bayeux Tapestry, documenting the greatest events to occur at the National Stadium
2012 Wembley Stadium, The Tale of Two Wembley’s. 12 c...