Katrina Berg

bundt surprise!, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel

2015

I've been charmed by Pantone's choice for the color of the year: honeysuckle. This oil painting is framed in 1 1/2" cradled masonite. The wide sides are painted grey to match. W...

Just waiting for Spring.... :) This oil painting is framed in 2" cradled masonite. The wide sides are painted grey to match. Wired and ready to hang. :: Painting :: Contemporary :...

For this cookies and cream cupcake I wanted the syrup to look wet and gooey while the icing flecked with bits of cookie looks rich and thick. And what could be better than a cupcake ...

"Kugelfisch und Co" is a vivid, colorful painting on canvas. It is telling a whole story about joyful living of different fantasy animals. They are all guarded by an angel in the bac...

A delightful celebration captured in oil on canvas, this original still-life painting is a masterful study in texture and sweetness. The artist renders a charmingly frosted cake with...

Capture a moment of sweet indulgence with this delightful original oil painting. The artist renders a luscious layered cake with a wonderfully textural quality, from the rich, dark c...

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 piece celebrates many of the good things in life - colour, pattern & cake! Rendered in oil paint on a cradled plywood panel & framed in a contemporary white tray frame, the flat...