Gale Bennett | Bio:

Gale Bennett is Founder and Director of ArtStudy Giverny in Giverny, France, a school for American artists that is celebrating its Tenth Anniversary Season in spring/summer 2005. A native of Southwest Florida, Bennett is an alumnus of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The works of this internationally-known artist can be found in collections throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

In February 2005 Gale Bennett was honored with the “Artist of the Year” award given annually by the “Angels of the Arts” committee of the Alliance for the Arts. The artist and his wife, ‘Cello, divide their time between Giverny, France in the spring/summer and Southwest Florida in the autumn/winter.

“GALE BENNETT’S landscape paintings remind us of the essential harmony underlying sensory experience. The poetic composition of his lines and forms corresponds to a larger truth, the human need for connection to the binding energy within nature--a nameless but very real presence that saturates his canvasses….

In Bennett’s paintings visual experience undergoes a kind of alchemy, what Degas called ‘a transformation in which imagination and memory work together.’ The works in this exhibition are evidence of that mysteriously powerful process. Every one is a love story, demonstrating to gallery visitors Bennett’s passion for the beauty of paint on canvas.”

Jay Williams Chief Curator, McKissick Museum University of South Carolina, USA 2004