Ben Risk - 'Take Your Love to Town'

‘Ben Risk is an emotive teller of stories whose lyrical paintings are bound to memory. Narrating natural and personal histories defined on the surface by lively colour and raw materiality, his reimagined scapes are emotional testaments to the passing of time and expose what it means to be human. Recurrently oneiric and unorthodox, his work always instances reality, either as elaborate, visual chapters informed by what he characterises as a “psychological odyssey to an imagined destination” or as simple, fleeting moments captured on paper.’