Peter Hamlin Art

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...

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

This contemporary still-life depicts two vibrant and juicy prawns with a lemon wedge on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is re...

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...

This untitled work by Jesús Villalpando (aka Feng) is colorful in its composition with it's thickly applied paint and rapid brushstrokes. The work is effortless, if not completely i...

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

This contemporary still-life depicts a two juicy sardines with a slice of lemon on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is ready t...

This contemporary still-life depicts a ripe artichoke and lemon wedge on blue and white Mediterranean tiles. This box canvas is part of my MINI Tiles series, and is ready to be hung ...

Original Painting tigers in jungle by river with reflection, tropical jungle setting. Titled "Paper Boat". Hand signed recto and titled verso. Framed 25.5 X 21.5 Canvas is 24 X 20...

Two Men and a Horse, 2024 by contemporary African American artist Bai (Carl Karni-Bain), is a 30 x 22in acrylic, oil pastel, and ballpoint pen abstract figurative painting on etching...

A wildly colourful floral meadow painting. Bold, bright, joyful and expressive in application and vibrant. Dense pattern inspired by my love of design and colour as well as gardens a...

Little Summer Storm is an original landscape painting by Nicky Chubb in her classic joyful style. The greens in the tress are interspersed with oranges and pinks to add extra depth a...