Ben Howe Art

Painting: Metamorphosis 1.
Opening reception Saturday 2nd August at Filnders lane gallery.
Featuring 47 artists from across the country #art #traditionalart #painting #realism #exhibition

Haven't posted this one before for some reason.
Anyhow, It's one of my ‘Grey’ paintings and I’m very fond of it.
It's big, it's grey, it's ‘Guillaume’. Oil on Canvas, 183x122 cm.
#surrealism #painting #art #oilpainting #traditionalart

Well thankyou Lauraval! Yes it's difficult to get paintings across on the little screen

Painting ‘The Gift’
You can see it alongside some other wonderful artworks at the ‘Dark Art’ exhibition @beinartgallery this Saturday from 5-8pm, or you can view the show until June the 15th #darkart #beinartgallery #mementomori #traditionalart #oilpainting #australianart #art #surrealist

Details from my painting ‘Island’ from the Leviathan series
#island #leviathan #painting #art #oilpainting #sharks #whale

Thanks a lot. Just posted a better picture of it. And they are absolutely meant to look like clay, or stone

Oil painting ‘Ruin’
#painting #art #surrealism #sculpture #sea #shipwreck #leviathan

Thanks a lot Justin!

Oil painting ‘Ruin’
#painting #art #surrealism #sculpture #sea #shipwreck

I DO know what you mean.. the brush itself was a terrible cheap thing 😀 and thank you!

Hey now! 😂

Thanks a lot - it really is something to see your paintings sitting amoungst such wonderful text

Thanks a lot Alexis!

Thanks a lot!!

Thanks a lot Theresa!

‘The Fall’ is a largely symbolic painting, which also makes reference to a passage in Moby Dick. The piece is also featured in the 200th anniversary edition of the great novel by Herman Melville.
#painting #art #wip #contemporaryart #surrealism #sculpture #sea

Hi Alexis - I've been painting for many years, and am trying to figure out bluesky- I'd love to be a part of your list!

Hi there- id love to be added!

Sculptural and almost photographic from a distance, these paintings are infact made with very loose, almost calligraphic linework upon closer inspection. ‘Imbroglio’ 150x152cm
#painting #art #hyperrealism #creative #inspiration #contemporaryart #dark #gothic #surrealism #sculpture #bodies #statues

#art

Thankyou - I think your paintings are great as well!

Thanks a lot Wendy

Painting 'Doomsday / the Sermon'. My paintings reference sculptures which give them an 'uncanny' feeling - solid and anchored in reality, yet crude and unfinished, as though the residue of an unfinished thought.
#slowart #oilpainting #traditionalpainting #fineart #surrealism #realism #painting

Working on 'Colossus.' This is a self-portrait of sorts, as Ahab. Based on the sculpture, which lends the painting that solid- but strange quality. #fineart #contemporaryart #oilpainting #realism #painting #surrealism

Putting some finishing touches on ‘A Burial at Sea.’
This, like many of my oil paintings, was based on a sculpture. I had to use a number of glazes to get the figure to emerge
#Art #RealistPainting #Surrealist #FigurativeArt #darksurrealism #painting

Working on one of my sculptures. This particular base has appeared in several paintings in various ways, notably 'A Burial at Sea' and 'The Fish and the Crab'. There are also less obvious incarnations - perhaps you can find them.
#art #sculpture #wip #realism

This piece was based on a sculptural self portrait, which can be seen in various stages of completion in a previous post.
#slowart #painting

Sending this one off to its wonderful new home tomorrow.
I almost forgot to post it without the all important little red ‘circles of concealment’

So here they are, and here it is:

Vortices, oil on panel, 60x60cm
#figurativeart #oilpainting

I'm pleased to announce that my painting ‘Permanent Rose’ has been selected as a Finalist in the 17th International ARC Salon!
#imaginativerealism #ArtRenewalCenter #RepresentationalArt #FineArt #OilPainting #FigurativeArt

‘States of Transcendence’. Oil on Canvas
The final days of my exhibition are approaching. Please drop by if you're able – I’d love you to see it!
#realism #ContemporaryArt #SurrealPortrait #portraiture #oilpainting