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. She 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.
A commission is 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 an 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. The paintings are the result of providing a way to a foreign experience inside.
Looking back at his pictures, Chris recognizes the events taking place in them and reminds them taking place before him, the way recalls the first encounter with people that love becomes more expensive.
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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