Raw & Vivid Fine Artworks by Matt Benson-Parry.
Benson-Parry is a specialist in the creation of beautiful paintings using acrylic paint, encaustic wax and tree sap. His practise is based upon years of experimentation and training with artists including the likes of Peter Davidson, Paul Trinidad and Penny Bovell.
Benson-Parry's paintings are notable for their size, brightness and surface texture. His common themes involve Goddesses, birds, dragons and the human condition as related through story and legend. His work is shown regularly in exhibitions and his work has been collected from New York to Portugal and across Australia.
All works are for sale as listed and commissions are welcome.
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Art is a mirror held up to history.
Art is a means to record a transience, whether that be a point in time or history or even a point in the psycological break of an artist. Art in itself cannot change history but may only ever reflect it.
Mythology and the contemporary world meet in Matt Benson-Parry's paintings. Monsters leer and birds sing under the nurturing gaze of Goddesses of bone and cloth. Benson-Parry's art is about storytelling of the oldest order, with a profound intensity of abject modernity.
Monsters and demons are a way of establishing norms within a society; a society manufactures its devils and raises its heroes to reinforce itself and both are fundamental and important as a reflection upon society, with its complications and paranoias. Benson-Parry's paintings are about feeling mighty and feeling small, about dead practices and strange living ones. Its about sharing similarities that you never knew you had, with people you've never met.
Benson-Parry is a specialist in the creation of beautiful paintings using acrylic paint, encaustic wax and tree sap. His practise is based upon years of experimentation and training with artists including the likes of Peter Davidson, Paul Trinidad and Penny Bovell.
Benson-Parry's paintings are notable for their size, brightness and surface texture. His common themes involve Goddesses, birds, dragons and the human condition as related through story and legend. His work is shown regularly in exhibitions and his work has been collected from New York to Portugal and across Australia.
All works are for sale as listed and commissions are welcome.
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Art is a mirror held up to history.
Art is a means to record a transience, whether that be a point in time or history or even a point in the psycological break of an artist. Art in itself cannot change history but may only ever reflect it.
Mythology and the contemporary world meet in Matt Benson-Parry's paintings. Monsters leer and birds sing under the nurturing gaze of Goddesses of bone and cloth. Benson-Parry's art is about storytelling of the oldest order, with a profound intensity of abject modernity.
Monsters and demons are a way of establishing norms within a society; a society manufactures its devils and raises its heroes to reinforce itself and both are fundamental and important as a reflection upon society, with its complications and paranoias. Benson-Parry's paintings are about feeling mighty and feeling small, about dead practices and strange living ones. Its about sharing similarities that you never knew you had, with people you've never met.
