Artist Profile
Oliver Benoit
Grenadian artist
The Grenadian artist Oliver Benoit began his career as a landscape and still-life painter before devoting his time to the abstract genre. His paintings are in oil, acrylic, and encaustic. His work also includes audio, videos, and installations. It is not difficult to understand the messages conveyed in Oliver’s art, but it might help to understand his background as a social scientist, which sometimes dictates the subject matter for his art. Not only to express the subject matter visually but also to dwell into more in-depth thought on the issues he wishes to explore.