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earth, water, flame triptych

January 8, 2020January 13, 2020 / Philip R. Bennetta / Leave a comment

earth, water, flame, oil on canvas, copyright Philip Bennetta, 2020

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earth, water and flame

January 1, 2020January 13, 2020 / Philip R. Bennetta / Leave a comment

Midwinter Spring -“its own season ( T.S. Eliot)”, has its own season on Bodmin Moor, and each of these three paintings carries fragment, history, memory, sense of place, spirit and trace of other. Water from a stream by the studio is mixed with soluble oil paint and…

earth contains fragments of earth from the moor

*earth*, copyright Philip Bennetta 01/01/2020

water has a stream-water wash, between paint layers

*water* copyright Philip Bennetta 01/01/2020

flame carries ash from Christmas Day fire-pit flame

*flame* copyright Philip Bennetta 01/01/2020

Colouring Christmas

December 27, 2019December 29, 2019 / Philip R. Bennetta / Leave a comment

Colouring Christmas is a meditation, to do with music, love, nature, fire and the human spirit. Made on Christmas day 2019, with found winter colour from Siblyback Lake in Cornwall and original music played on the Egyptian Oud.

and a peaceful New Year to you all from Cornwall

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a place for everything…

December 22, 2019December 22, 2019 / Philip R. Bennetta / Leave a comment

welcome Oud x

and then the film…

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 / Philip R. Bennetta / Leave a comment

Following on from the poetry pamphlet Yn Mis Hedre/In October, here is a new short film to do with the art making process, which includes a reading of the poem in English and Cornish, together with music on bouzouki. I hope you like it. Thank you for viewing: