Barn Interior Paintings

A joyful depiction of a towering celebration cake decorated in edible wild flowers. This painting has a great deal of texture, vibrancy and character. Kerry Louise Bennett, artist and painter, has original artworks available with Wychwood Art in our gallery and online. Working from her home studio in Sheffield, Kerry Louise Bennett (b.1972) makes colourful paintings loaded with texture and pattern. Her previous lives working in set design, upholstery and photography, and her passion for music and literature, all feed into the semi-abstract interior and still life compositions she paints. In one sense the objects painted and the relationships between them can be seen as arbitrary, necessary only to serve a sense of spatial orchestration, and the abstract sensibility of a process-led artist, however, an element of romance and storytelling always seems to emerge in her charming characterful paintings. Colour and composition, strong mark-making and the pure materiality of paint drive my creative practice, but of course everything I make reveals something of me - the introvert, the observer, the dreamer. I work over multiple layers before finding the story the painting wants to tell. In some ways I feel like the conductor of an unruly orchestra - there is a musicality to my work, and my visual vocabulary draws on the everyday to capture a kind of unconscious narrative that transforms chaos into calm, worry into joy, the mundane to the magical. Kerry says of herself: I am obsessed with colour first and foremost – it’s impact is so visceral, but mark making is also important – usually expressed through pattern and the shapes of things often scratched into the surface of the paint, with textures then built up over many layers. My visual vocabulary draws on the ordinary stuff of life - chairs, plants...

This 36" x 36" acrylic painting by an unknown artist depicts a female figure in front of a black five-point star, an adaptation of the "red star" of Communist China that generally re...

Red Door is an American Impressionist painting by Stuart Fullerton. The artist is known for his landscape and cityscape paintings in the Impressionistic style. Red Door is painted ...

Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Framed in Solid wood floater frame with light finish. Ready to Hang. Medium : Oil painting on stretched Linen. Artist : ...

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught paint...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Jim Beckner's (US based) "View to the Kitchen" is an original, handmade oil painting depicting a trio at a bar with a view to the establishment's kitchen. About the Artist: (Bor...

Pocket Sloes [2023] is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still l...

From the Tyndale Monument is an Original oil painting by Eleanor Woolley. This painting was started Plein air and finished in the studio. Looking down on the landscape from the Monum...

Very Shiny Very Red Apple is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her series of realistic oil paintings of fruit with a nod to baroque still life painting. The pai...

Stunning signed and dated impressionist oil on canvas figure in interior by Belgian painter Leon De Smet. The work depicts a woman in an incredibly ornate room with her back to the a...

This contemporary still-life depicts a vibrant and juicy scallop on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is ready to be hung unfra...