Collection: Benjamin Warner

Benjamin Warner was born in Cornwall in 1970. After graduating from Falmouth School of Art & Design, he moved to London to pursue a career in Illustration. His first exhibition as a painter came in 2005, the same year of his first show with Beside the Wave in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Benjamin’s work sits between abstraction and representation with beautifully atmospheric paintings depicting both landscape and urban scenes. With a complex knowledge of his medium, Benjamin’s handling of oil paint shows a level of history within the works themselves. Often working in monochromatic palettes, Benjamin’s paintings are full of depth and he captures the essence of a place beautifully. His paintings have become highly collected across the UK and internationally.

"Falmouth feels like “Home” for me as a painter.  It is the place I have painted more than anywhere else. Drawn to the margins of the day, the Docks and Carrick roads really interest me, dusk silhouettes of resting boats, the docks standing proud interspersed with distant glowing lights, just fascinates me. Painting Contre-Jour as the sunrises over Carrick Roads, and the water sparkles, the gulls wake, and the town starts to come to life is just magical. Steeped in all that history, the emotions that are conjured up as dusk moves to dawn, from melancholy to brightness. Not only just visually, but the change in warmth/temperature and sounds just make it seem such a very special place." — Benjamin Warner