I’m Benji, a small-town artist from Somerset currently living in Bristol. I grew up in a quiet village, with my childhood spent watching cartoons and playing with my Jack Russell dog, Buster, in the fields around my house.

I have always had a love of art and making things, creating many paper craft board games as a child that had overcomplicated rules and the tiniest of playing pieces. My college years were spent behind a camera. My final exhibition was a golden framed 7 by 5-foot close up photo of a model resembling a wood nymph staring directly at the viewer with blazing red hair in the warm morning haze of a woodland. They wore an outfit I had stitched together from pieces of green cotton that I hand felted to make look like bits of moss. Exhibitions have been a big part of what I have enjoyed about making art, both showcasing my own work and my peers. My past work included abstract art pieces I made from trunks of wood that I had chopped-up, charred and then pinned back together, as well as creating a mirror maze inside an old wooden beehive that you could see inside, it was placed on a plinth covered in living grass, with the sounds of buzzing bees playing from within.