CHRIS KENYON ARTIST PAINTER
‘’27 LANDSCAPES FROM
THE LIFE OF BEN HALL’’
Opening
speaker Peter Bradley author of The Judeus Covenant “The Death of Ben Hall”
(direct
descendant of Ben Hall)
Bernard
Doc Neeson, (Musician) will perform at
the event.
This
exhibition of 27 landscape paintings portrays significant places in the life of
the bushranger, Ben Hall. From his marriage to Bridget Walsh in Bathurst, in
1856 to his violent and lonely death at Billabong Creek near Forbes in 1865.
I
was helped and guided in my research with some of the sites being difficult to
locate. I was also fortunate in gaining access to private properties that had
been attacked and robbed by the Hall gang. Some like Cliefden, still bear scars
in the form of bullet holes.
In
the process of producing the paintings I found them becoming increasingly
darker and less structured as Ben became
more lost and desparate, with the world closing in on him.
Each
site is portrayed as it is today, not as it was at the time; the intention was
to allow the history of what happened in each particular place to filter
through in the emotion of each painting.
