![]() Fuel for Food |
![]() The River |
![]() Flashbox |
![]() Growth Bud on the Plain |
![]() Hinton Road Beetroot |
![]() Red Flowering Gum |
![]() The Untitled Tractor |
![]() Humpback Highrise |
![]() Lakeshore Bark |
![]() Largs Bovine |
![]() Storm Pier |
![]() The Vegetable Stand |
The surreal vision found in Bennett's paintings evokes a delightful nostalgia. His large-scale canvases casually depict spaceships, submarines & aircraft in the the manner of artists such as Chris Foss & Peter Elson, combining these dynamic machines with unlikely domestic settings. Bennett's imaginative world is a pleasurable shock & a reminder of things that never happened but should have.
Andrew Frost - Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 November 2011.