Gary Benfield

Artist Details: After leaving the academic world Gary Benfield set up his own studio near London, where he continued to paint and draw. His work has been collected throughout Europe and the US and his reputation as a consummate artist has been firmly established.

Drawing plays an integral role in Benfield's images and his background, as an illustrator is clearly evident in much of his work. Fine, sweeping lines combine with washes of colour, suggesting movement and form. He paints with spontaneity and passion, and keeps only the images that he feels are perfected in their conception, rather that overwork those that he feels are not.