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My work is now represented by Andelli Gallery. We will be working together over the next year on a curatorial project for the November/ December show. Big thanks to Ellie! Andelli Gallery https://www.andelliart.com/artists/ben-risk

Harking back to 2018.... During a period where I was experimenting with materials ,thinking about remote islands, the sea, the sounds and the possibility of visiting the Shiant Isles ; a small group of remote islands in the Minch, a strait in north-west Scotland that separates the mainland from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides. The resulting painting entitled ' Knee Deep in the North Sea' (2018), also a song title by Portico Quartet featured in a group show at the Mis

Curated by Ben Risk for the Arb Building, University of Cambridge. Diverse Pleasures brings together a group of artists who currently live and work in the UK. The group have been drawn to each other through years of friendship and discussion, and the work in this exhibition is reflective of their shared interests. Works in the exhibition were chosen for their individual qualities rather than their usefulness to curatorial thesis, but a notion of genre emerges as central. They

Installation from the exhibition - Wagtails on Moon Street - 2021. A joint show with Adam Hedley . click image to load video

Is colour enough on it's own? Well yes, it is. These are some shots from various experiments from the past 5-6 years. Using blocks of colour, framed by the architectural space , often using found objects, drawing from the shapes of church windows, sampling colour from the street or from a local garden. The late great Craigie Aitchison talks about starting a painting with a colour, then letting the process unravel as he put one colour next to another. Colour alone is enough..

Here's a pic of some of the 'fragments', culled from other paintings. Pocket sized clippings from some of the life events over the past year. More on my instagram page - @benjaminrisk

Some snaps from the past few year....... some form the Salem Chapel in Broadhempston and some from Stokes Croft Gallery, Bristol.

A few years ago, my daughter and I spent time foraging.... only to discover the hidden merits of bark... The surface is beautiful... and meant I could quickly paint some of the things that run through my mind. It felt like communing with Frank Walter . I didn't expect that anything would come of them, but thanks to the great folks at Art and People they found a beautiful new home here in Devon. Thanks Flo and Claudia! Bark paintings 2023

For the past four years I've been spending time at a particularly beautiful stretch of coast in South Devon called Mattiscombe. It's become a site of special interest for me and many others due to the abundance of flora, fauna and wildlife. On a good day, you'll catch sightings of Stonechats, Cirl Buntings, Seals, Peregrine Falcons, Osyter Catchers, and Kestrals. The Stonechat, with it's striking black head, white collar and reddish body perches atop gorse thickets making th

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