Lot 293 - Bryony Bensly - Meadow

Oil on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Born in Thailand and raised mainly in Hong Kong and England, Bryony Bensly experienced a multicultural upbringing, with artistic influences that ranged from Asian religious art to postmodernism. She had forays into installation art, made sculptures out of organic matter, and then circled back to her first love: drawing and painting.

Bensly’s work is a juxtaposition of conceptual ideas and realism, manifesting in surreal imagery with a narrative that focuses on our internal and external life. Her current body of work focuses on our interdependence, responsibility, and attitudes towards nature and the environment.

She earned her BFA in “Art and Social Context,” from Dartington College of Arts and her MFA from the New York Academy of Figurative Art, graduating cum laude. She has shown extensively in Museums and Galleries in England and the US, notably Sotheby's and the annual exhibition of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Bensly was a recipient of an artist-in-residence, for 3 years, from the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, and has won awards from the Portrait Society of America and Art Renewal Center, among others. Her work has been chosen to be part of the Luna Codex Collection.