Ben Fenske

Summer Afternoon

2016

Ben Fenske

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Canvas, Oil

Painted from life, a woman sits perched on a windowsill. Leaning against a wall-post, knees bent, she reads a book in her lap. Canvas shines through by way of Fenske's quick, brash, ...

Ben Fenske

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Canvas, Oil

A female figure stands at the windowsill looking out. Taking a breather from whatever she may have been doing prior. She leans comfortably on the sill while the other hand ashes a ci...

Ben Fenske

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Linen, Oil

Painted en plein-air on a beach on the East End of Lond Island, a woman walks against the wind on a moonlit shore. She folds her arms to retain warmth while her hair and skirt trail ...

Ben Fenske

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Oil, Panel

Painted on site at a local pub, Ben Fenske sketches out an incoherent bar scene. Perhaps the obscurity of forms is a nod to the inebriated state that alcohol puts one in. Also the re...