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Kerry Louise BennettThe Fool (King for a Day), Original painting, Figurative, Contemporary, King2023
2023
About the Item
'Who but a fool would be king for a day?' Inspired by a quote from the artist's favourite film, this playful painting invites you to superimpose your own story. Painted with thick vibrant layers of oil paint the surface is heavily textured and has a wonderfully raw tactile quality. Supplied framed in a white wooden tray frame.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Oil on Canvas
84 H x 64 W x 4 D cm (33.07 x 25.20 x 1.57 in)
Sold framed
Image size:
Height: 80cm (31.50 in)
Width: 60.99cm (24.01 in)
Complete size of unframed painting
Height: 80cm (31.50 in)
Width: 60cm (23.62 in)
Depth: 1.5cm (0.59 in)
Framed Size:
Height: 84cm (33.07 in)
Width: 64cm (25.20 in)
Depth: 4cm (1.57 in)
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
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, vessels... I try to use these motifs lyrically to capture a kind of narrative that is equal measures of the mundane and the magical.
- Creator:Kerry Louise Bennett
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 33.08 in (84 cm)Width: 25.2 in (64 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Deddington, GB
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