Wow!  Ben Kelly's paintings hit you right between the eyes. There is nothing reticent about this work, nothing delicate, nothing faint hearted. Here is an artist of boldness and imagination producing paintings of other worldly enchantment. But we can still associate with them as they are essentially about light and its play on everyday scenes - coastal scapes with people and their dogs, enchanted forests with twisting branches beneath shafts of light, layer upon layer of paint, and all with their own narrative - he has his own visual language. Ben is an artist who does nothing by halves...