Chris Bennett was born in London in 1957 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 80s under Euan Uglow, Geoffrey Camp and Phil Sutton. He has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Show, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries, London. His current works will be seen in prestigious galleries throughout the UK.
Chris was commissioned and painted
Chris Bennett was born in London in 1957 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 80s under Euan Uglow, Geoffrey Camp and Phil Sutton. He has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Show, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries, London. His current works will be seen in prestigious galleries throughout the UK.
Chris was commissioned and painted a remarkable portrait of Sir William Hawthorne, now in the collection of Churchill College Cambridge, who, with Sir Frank Whittle designed the first jet engine. Chris paints the inner world, a distillation of something seen or half seen in life, which is digested and later as an account officer of the image; That painting is an ideal, not an idea and his paintings are the result of providing a way to a foreign experience inside.
Looking back at his paintings, Chris recognizes the events taking place in them and before them, the way they recall a first encounter with people in love and they become more immersive the more you gaze at them.
To give pictorial expression to these events is what these paintings to guide their achievements. For Chris, which must always be a seed, a grain of sand in the oyster that symbolizes what is most important for artists eyes, which is alive and continues to live in himself as the image is born and grows.
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