Paul Bennett is an international contemporary Fine Artist specialising in exceptional semi-abstract seascape/landscape paintings and portraiture. The two themes are very different in mood and style, but both are created through using a mix of traditional 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.
“My abstract paintings are not tied into any specific region or time, they are an eclectic synthesis of place, weather and season. I choose to capture and communicate my experience this way as it reflects life with its unceasing process of observing, experiencing, interpreting, storing – and ultimately – reflecting. The result I strive 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.”
His works were described thus in a feature in the Times picking artists for their investment potential - "...perfect brooding landscape..."
The painting "Night Falls" is in the permanent collection of the Rochester Muesuem of Fine Art', New Hamspire, U.S.A..
The painting "Rain Down" will feature on the set of season 2 of the American TV drama The Following starring Kevin Bacon