Paul Bennett

Paul Bennett is an international contemporary Fine Artist specialising in exceptional semi-abstract seascape/landscape paintings and also unique portraiture. The two themes are very different in mood and style, but both are made from using a mix of traditional techniques and more unconventional painting methods. Both rely on drawing from memory to create finished work that is abstracted and more expressional than representational. Bennett endeavours to generate a sense of intimacy and isolation while leaving the subject open to interpretation.

With the digital age well and truly with us, the advances of visual media means that almost anything is possible within the boundaries of our imagination. It has been Bennett's aim to create work that is most definitely a painting; accomplished by using rich textures, multiple layers, poured paint and brush/palette knife marks. This becomes a way of escaping the everyday, mass produced visuals that we are constantly exposed to and the way in which we now digest and assimilate our visual world. Bennett is a great admirer of photography and photorealism and appreciates the technical ability to produce such works. However, his approach is to record and comment on things that are more than vi...

BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting)

The Padstow Gallery, Cornwall, U.K. - 01/09/2018

Arkley Fine Art, Hitchin, U.K. - 13/09/2018

International Art Acquisitions,
New York, U.S.A. - 23/09/2018

Gallery Different, London, U.K. - 04/10/2018

Gormleys Fine Art, Belfast,
Northern Ireland U.K. - 03/1 1/2018

Lowry Hotel
Comme Ca Art, April, 2014 - London

Point of View
Gallery Different, February, 2014 - London

The brewery
February, 2014 - Cumbria

The Royal Automobile Club
January, 2014 - Pall Mall, London

The Glasshouse
November, 2013 - Edinburgh

Edinburgh Art Fair
November, 2013 - Edinburgh

International Art Acquisitions
November, 2013 - New York, U.S.A.

Galerie “In de oude school”
November, 2013 - Holland

Affordable Art Fair
October, 2013 - Battersea, London

SUMMER SHOW
Scotland Art
August, 2013 - Glasgow

SUMMER SHOW
Off the Wall
July, 2013 - Cardiff

Summer Salon
View Gallery
July, 2013 - Bristol

Artisan
Comme Ca Art
June, 2013 - Manchester

Du Wang Centre
May, 2013 - Shenzhen, China

Claremont Gallery
May, 2013 - Seven Oaks

Oxford art fair
May, 2013 - Oxford

Asia Contemporary Art Show
May, 2013 - Hong Kong

WHITEHOUSE GALLERY - LANDSCAPES
May, 2013 - Scotland

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR ...