Ben Cahill

The artist has created staged landscapes, as well as places or living things that hold a dramatic significance for him. Lately attempting to bring a universal pathos through the use of figures in the form of  human skeletons.
        Two of the works are representations of actual places; Karalinga is at the gate to the artist's deceased grandfathers property, and the Tunnel is on the road leading there.

         All of the other paintings ride on the back of the passe (for some) Renaissance or the Romantics, who often staged their images in one way or another, though my characters happen to be trees, rocks or mountains, leaning this way or that.

          Using wood, canvas and oil, the ancient material all painters still use, he is trying to draw you to the object of art itself. An image as an object in itself, with intrinsic dramatic effect, being a fragment or moment or an idea.