This is me

If you’re expecting any of that third person ‘about the artist’ arty blah blah here then too bad, I’m just me, one person who paints pictures.
My name is Ben Cockwell and I live in Fox Bay, a village out on West Falkland well away from the urban jungle that is Stanley (pop 2,000). As a youngster I had a deal of interest in visual art, I sketched in graphite, charcoal and pastels and did a bit of watercolour painting when I was feeling ambitious. After leaving secondary school and deciding not to pursue art in further education there never seemed to be enough time for drawing (strangely there always seemed to be enough time for beer, girls and such). After 18 years without lifting so much as a pencil I decided to make the time, in the intervening years I'd become keen on photography and this rekindled my interest in drawing and painting. One day I just sat down with a piece of copy paper and a ballpoint pen and said to myself ‘get on with it’, this was the result:

...and it all started there. In 2010 I was able to go part time in my regular job (running my own small printing and embroidery business). Now I paint and draw far more than probably is healthy. Another one of my enthusiasms is wandering around in the wilderness getting rained and blowed on, takes all sorts eh?