Michael Bennallack Hart
Michael Bennallack Hart's work is prized by collectors for its evocation of atmosphere, mastery of composition and strong feelings of romanticism. He follows in the tradition of the Romantic landscape painters of the nineteenth century, but with a contemporary and original sense of arrangement, quality and approach. Michael began his career designing and illustrating film posters and record sleeves, and painting landscapes and sports scenes. In the '70s and '80s he worked as an advertising art director and illustrator, whilst continuing to paint and exhibited in New York. His work is held in private, public and corporate collections around the world.
"Michael Bennallack Hart has a particular feeling for the solidity of landscape: the white mass of a chalk cliff, the solid shapes of clipped hedges, heavy dark blocks of foliage. It lends an impressive and individual quality of weight and calm to his work, and an elegiac serenity."
Jane Ross, "The Week"
Selected Exhibitions
2012
Medici Gallery, London
Roland Goslett Gallery, Richmond
Red Rag Gallery, Bath
The Pepper Gallery, London
Blackheath Gallery, London
2011
Medici Gallery, London
Langham Gallery, London
Russell Gallery, London
Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin
2010
Medici Gallery, London
Roland Goslett Gallery, Richmond
Galerie Carla Magna, Paris
Mall Galleries, London
Gloss Gallery, Exeter
2009
Medici Gallery, London
2008
Medici Gallery, London
Roland Goslett Gallery, Richmond
2007
Medici Gallery, London
Mall Galleries, London
2006
Medici Gallery, London
2005
Medici Gallery, London
Royal Academy Of Arts, London
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford
2004
Medici Gallery, London
Collins & Hastie, London
2003
Medici Gallery, London
Walton Gallery, London
Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex
2002
Mall Galleries, London
Chelsea Arts Club, London
The Walton Gallery, London
Pierrepoint Fine Art Gallery, Oxford
2001
Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco
Henry Boxer Gallery, London
Pierrepoint Fine Art Gallery, Oxford
John Mitchell & Son, London
2000
John Mitchell & Son, London
Island Gallery, Oxford
Stacy-Marks Gallery, Perth
1999
John Mitchell & Son, London
1998
John Mitchell & Son, London
1996
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Royal College of Art, London
1995
Mall Galleries, London
1978-82
The Spectrum Gallery, New York