Seascape by Paul Bennett

£1,195.00

Paul Bennett is an international contemporary fine artist specialising in Seascape, Abstract and Figurative paintings.



The seascape and abstract paintings created are inspired by memory and experience and are developed using artistic intuition. They are not tied into any specific region or time, they are an eclectic synthesis of place, weather and season. Paul chooses to capture and communicate his experience this way as it reflects life with its unceasing process of observing, experiencing, interpreting, storing – and ultimately – reflecting. The result he strives for is a unique and original visual experience that has captured not only the sense of somewhere/sometime, but also the more subtle notion of recollection…

The creative process for Paul’s figurative paintings begins initially from found images (magazines, Internet), which are used as a base from which he begins to sketch out the composition. It’s important to his work that the initial reference images are from a mass produced source for a couple of reasons. The first is that the paintings he wants to create are completely removed from the polished magazine shoots and plastic people portrayed from which Paul is referencing. The bombardment from advertising and the media of immaculate people has for many years become the normal way that we absorb our visual life. The act of taking the person out of the context of material advertising is a way in which what is left can be open to scrutiny and reinterpreted. The flat and empty backgrounds he uses help enhance this…