Artists

BEN RAVENSCROFT

Ben Ravenscroft makes compelling paintings, which behind their spontaneity, reveal multiple levels of premeditation and intention, intuition and deliberation. Ravenscroft systematically places bands of colour in order to retrace the brush marks of the primed surface, both embellishing and disrupting the original function. Ravenscroft's paintings begin as loose, splashed brush marks of white primer; once dry, these strokes are then repainted with carefully planned tonal ranges of the five primary colours in his palette. Growing out of the primed ground, the resulting spiralling images display a cold, almost mathematical internal logic in the manner of their evolution.

Ravenscroft's paintings return to the founding oppositions of abstract painting, and the assumed possibilities of paint, questioning the basis on which such oppositions are founded.

Ben Ravenscroft was born in East Sussex, studied at Goldsmiths College, London and lives and works in London.