Ben Howe Art
@benhoweart.bsky.social
Contemporary Australian artist (mostly painting)
Winner of the 2024 Lester prize.
Archibald / Doug moran / ARC salon finalist. 2023 Eureka prize. 2021 Beautiful Bizzare Honarable mention.
See my website: https://ben-howe.com
Winner of the 2024 Lester prize.
Archibald / Doug moran / ARC salon finalist. 2023 Eureka prize. 2021 Beautiful Bizzare Honarable mention.
See my website: https://ben-howe.com
Painting: Metamorphosis 1.
Opening reception Saturday 2nd August at Filnders lane gallery.
Featuring 47 artists from across the country #art #traditionalart #painting #realism #exhibition
Opening reception Saturday 2nd August at Filnders lane gallery.
Featuring 47 artists from across the country #art #traditionalart #painting #realism #exhibition
July 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Painting: Metamorphosis 1.
Opening reception Saturday 2nd August at Filnders lane gallery.
Featuring 47 artists from across the country #art #traditionalart #painting #realism #exhibition
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
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
June 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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
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
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
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
May 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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
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
#island #leviathan #painting #art #oilpainting #sharks #whale
May 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Details from my painting ‘Island’ from the Leviathan series
#island #leviathan #painting #art #oilpainting #sharks #whale
#island #leviathan #painting #art #oilpainting #sharks #whale
April 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
April 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘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
#painting #art #wip #contemporaryart #surrealism #sculpture #sea
March 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
‘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
#painting #art #wip #contemporaryart #surrealism #sculpture #sea
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
#painting #art #hyperrealism #creative #inspiration #contemporaryart #dark #gothic #surrealism #sculpture #bodies #statues
March 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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
#painting #art #hyperrealism #creative #inspiration #contemporaryart #dark #gothic #surrealism #sculpture #bodies #statues
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
#slowart #oilpainting #traditionalpainting #fineart #surrealism #realism #painting
March 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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
#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
February 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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
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
January 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
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
#art #sculpture #wip #realism
January 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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
#art #sculpture #wip #realism
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 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
December 17, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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 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
#imaginativerealism #ArtRenewalCenter #RepresentationalArt #FineArt #OilPainting #FigurativeArt
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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
#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
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
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 AM
‘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
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
Painting 'When Death Sleeps it Dreams of You'. 46x61cm. See it as part of my exhibition ‘Echos in the Abyss’ at Compendium Gallery.
It's on for 1 more week until the 7th Dec #oilpainting #macabre #darkart
It's on for 1 more week until the 7th Dec #oilpainting #macabre #darkart
December 3, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Painting 'When Death Sleeps it Dreams of You'. 46x61cm. See it as part of my exhibition ‘Echos in the Abyss’ at Compendium Gallery.
It's on for 1 more week until the 7th Dec #oilpainting #macabre #darkart
It's on for 1 more week until the 7th Dec #oilpainting #macabre #darkart
Painting 'Gateway'. My exhibition 'Echos in the Abyss' is open for another week - please check it out! #oilpainting #darkart #gothic #newcontemporary #art #painting
November 30, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Painting 'Gateway'. My exhibition 'Echos in the Abyss' is open for another week - please check it out! #oilpainting #darkart #gothic #newcontemporary #art #painting
Putting the finishing touches on ‘Passage.’ Oil paint on Pannel.
Sometimes the best paint brushes aren’t brushes..
#oilpainting #wip #hyperrealism #australianart #dark #witches #women #sculpture #surreal
Sometimes the best paint brushes aren’t brushes..
#oilpainting #wip #hyperrealism #australianart #dark #witches #women #sculpture #surreal
November 29, 2024 at 5:19 AM
Putting the finishing touches on ‘Passage.’ Oil paint on Pannel.
Sometimes the best paint brushes aren’t brushes..
#oilpainting #wip #hyperrealism #australianart #dark #witches #women #sculpture #surreal
Sometimes the best paint brushes aren’t brushes..
#oilpainting #wip #hyperrealism #australianart #dark #witches #women #sculpture #surreal
Sculpting a self portrait as captain Ahab. My Exhibition ‘Echos in the Abyss’ is open until Dec 7th at compendium.gallery
I’m really pleased with the show, so go and have a look if you can.
#benhoweart #wip #sculpting
November 26, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Sculpting a self portrait as captain Ahab. My Exhibition ‘Echos in the Abyss’ is open until Dec 7th at compendium.gallery
I’m really pleased with the show, so go and have a look if you can.
#benhoweart #wip #sculpting
Putting some finishing touches on ‘A Burial at Sea’
This, like many of my paintings, was based on a sculpture. I had to use a number of glazes to get the figure to ‘Pop’
#ContemporaryArt #RealistPainting #SurrealistPortrait #FigurativeArt #darksurrealism #surreal #painting
This, like many of my paintings, was based on a sculpture. I had to use a number of glazes to get the figure to ‘Pop’
#ContemporaryArt #RealistPainting #SurrealistPortrait #FigurativeArt #darksurrealism #surreal #painting
November 23, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Putting some finishing touches on ‘A Burial at Sea’
This, like many of my paintings, was based on a sculpture. I had to use a number of glazes to get the figure to ‘Pop’
#ContemporaryArt #RealistPainting #SurrealistPortrait #FigurativeArt #darksurrealism #surreal #painting
This, like many of my paintings, was based on a sculpture. I had to use a number of glazes to get the figure to ‘Pop’
#ContemporaryArt #RealistPainting #SurrealistPortrait #FigurativeArt #darksurrealism #surreal #painting