By Ben Fennessy
2025
acrylic & oil on canvas
93x123.5cm framed
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ARTIST STATEMENT
The natural environment and local landscape are the primary inspiration for Ben Fennessy’s paintings, in particular the wild Victorian South-West Coast and Koroitj/Tower Hill on Gunditjmara country. Ben draws upon the influence of artists such as John Constable, JMW Turner, Clarice Beckett and Fred Williams in his use of light, however the intense colours in Ben’s paintings evoke the drama inherent in the Australian environment. For Landscape Salon, it’s the recent Grampians bushfires and Killarney storms and ocean gales that are the context and settings for these striking images. They are all a mixture of oil and acrylic on canvas, painted from photos and memory in Ben’s ‘Garage Studio’.
BIO
Ben Fennessy is a painter and printmaker who has been a practising artist for over half a century. Ben exhibits regularly at Boom, and he was a tertiary arts educator in Geelong for many years.