Rebecca Bennett

“Using the sensual qualities of oil, I create layered abstractions which explore the dynamics of color, line, and texture. The viewer is encouraged by their abstraction to interpret their experience of the work rather than the work itself.

My work is born of a manipulation of oil paint while the canvas lies on a flat, horizontal surface.I use brushes, palette knife, and/or mineral spirits to move the color. The paint and oil create jewels of sensual, layered, vibrant, color which move on the canvas. Using viscous liquid mediums allows me to explore this movement and fluidity.

Recently, I have enjoyed incorporating the horizon line. What emerges is a piece that is abstract but recalls the landscape. My process is one in which the artist and the paint are equal partners negotiating the surface of the canvas as if the paint had animate qualities”----Rebecca