A Stroud artist will be staging a solo exhibition next month.
Benedict Welch will be exhibiting at the Chapels of Rest in Bisley Cemetery from July 4th – 13th, with a private view on Friday 3rd from 5pm to 9pm.
The exhibition, entitled ‘Sites of Work’, will feature 12 large paintings, measuring 100 x 80cm.
Benedict said: “I am a painter and Art and Design lecturer currently studying for an MFA in Fine Art at Falmouth University. I recently moved to Stroud, which has informed a body of recent work focused on the local landscape, particularly its industrial remnants, canals, paths, mills, capstans and overlooked spaces that sit between past and present use.
“Teaching and painting both shape the way I think about process, labour, repetition and the gradual development of an image.
“The exhibition brings together twelve large oil paintings made in response to walks around Stroud and the surrounding area. The works are primarily concerned with the difficulty of translating places into paintings, especially when the view is too wide, too layered or too awkward for a single photograph to capture.
“Each of the paintings uses large collections of digitally stitched photographs taken from various viewpoints around Stroud and the surrounding area. These become starting points for paintings in which mistakes, shifts in scale, colour changes and visible revisions are allowed to remain part of the final image.”
