This contemporary artwork depicts a lone horseman riding across a rugged, rocky landscape. The painting features a striking color palette, with warm, earthy tones contrasted against a vast, blue sky. The brushstrokes are expressive and emotive, creating a sense of movement and energy. The subject matter appears to be a symbolic representation of the human experience, with the horseman navigating the challenges and uncertainties of the natural world. The artist's intention seems to be exploring themes of adventure, solitude, and the human connection to the natural environment. ...
Rooted in a deep connection to horses and rural life, Benji Grignon’s work merges painting and textile to explore embodiment, animality, and memory through a distinctly tactile and physical lens. His paintings often feature muscular, hybrid forms—human, animal, or both—rendered in rich oil surfaces that evoke tension, movement, and emotional charge. These figures inhabit ambiguous spaces, suspended between reality and dream, instinct and narrative. Grignon’s approach to figuration is raw and intuitive, emphasizing flesh, gesture, and the tactile nature of paint. In parallel, his textile works engage with the sculptural and symbolic potential of fabric. Using techniques like stitching, layering, and binding, he creates textured surfaces that recall skin, wounds, and ritual coverings. This dual engagement with soft and hard materials mirrors the tension in his imagery—between vulnerability and strength, instinct and construction. Grignon’s practice is both deeply personal and mythic in tone, channeling memory, labor, and physicality into forms that speak of connection—to the body, to animals, and to an ancestral sense of place. His work blurs the line between human and beast, image and object, surface and story. ...
