Chris Bennett


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Chris Bennett Art

			Chris gained a B.A.(hons) at Sheffield School of Art and Design where her figurative work, executed mainly in oils on canvas, are of life studies and still life. Some paintings were of discarded or broken items where she sought to highlight the intrinsic beauty of something rejected and give it new meaning. Other pieces encouraged the viewer to see afresh the ‘humdrum and accepted’ with a new perspective and sometimes a sense of humour. We notice this in her studies of women.

Recognition of value is something she endeavors to do working alongside a wide variety of people including disadvantaged groups where she uses art to uplift and reveal the unnoticed.

To see afresh something that is broken or rejected and to focus on new found merits or worth is a theme that has continued throughout her
work. This undoubtedly was the inspiration behind the ‘Skins’ as we see a successful blending of otherwise incongruous elements: tenderness and rebllion as personified within the figures.

Her motivation to see the positive in situations has inspired her to use art to work with a range of people including disadvantaged groups
where she helps to encourage and build confidence.

		"Dried Banana Skin & Mars Wrapper" Size 60cm x 70cm Oil on canvas <Click to enlarge and restore proportions				"Shirts" Size 1 m 80 cm x 1 m 53 cm Oil on canvas <Click to enlarge and restore proportions				"Skins" Size 1 m 2 cm x 76 cm Oil on canvas Winning painting for BBC Look North West Competition <Click to enlarge and restore proportions
		Chris won the Graves art gallery award with this painting at the age of sixteen ‘Beverley’ oil on canvas 90cm x 122cm <Click to enlarge and restore proportions				‘Dolls’ acrylic on paper 60cm x 75cm <Click to enlarge and restore proportions				‘Woman at the Hairdresser’s' oil on canvas 46cm x 62cm <Click to enlarge and restore proportions


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