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Pleased to post this link to our latest short poem-film, published to coincide with Canterbury Festival Artists’ Open Houses, in which we are participating – open this week-end and next week-end. The work is to do with place, memory, and the making process, filmed and recorded in Walmer, Deal, Kent, England.

I hope you like it x

my magic bench

Sculptures for October exhibition, featuring ‘Killick’ Dancers (‘Killick’ – ancient anchor for small boat). Planning to work on music-poem-film, watch this space for Killick circles and a serpent dance…

studio bench, ready for work on the final Killick dancers (17,18) Philip R. Bennetta, August 2024
Linden and Oak, Killick Dancers (number 17, 18)
Outside the studio featuring Killick Dancers (17, 18) and Tess, Parson-Russell, August 2024

light and dark (I)-(IV)

These unique prints (U/P) are inspired by my move from Cornwall to the Kent coast at Walmer, UK.

I carry a sense of place; of moorland life, its light and dark skies, landscape, streams, to this stretch of coast in Kent, using carborundum to make the studies. The plate is inked up, put through an etching press, to make the strong black and whites. I am attracted to the Carborundum technique, invented in the 1930’s – it holds a resonance for me in the arts and pamphlet-making.

light and dark (I) Carborundum on Somerset paper (13cm x 18cm) Philip R. Bennetta 2023
light and dark (II) Carborundum on Somerset paper (13cm x 18cm) Philip R. Bennetta 2023
light and dark (III) Carborundum on Somerset paper (13cm x 18cm) Philip R. Bennetta 2023
light and dark (IV) Carborundum on Somerset paper (13cm x 18cm) Philip R. Bennetta 2023