Phanox 41/80

About Phanox 41/80

A British post WW2 and contemporary artist Anthony Benjamin (1931) spent his adult life exploring different art forms—painting, sculpting, drawing and printmaking.
This intriguing ink on paper piece appears almost 3 dimensional in form rendered in subtle colours—white, pale green and pink that accentuate its layers.

It was during the 1970’s that Benjamin, a close school friend of Brian Eno (a musician and member of Roxy Music) created a series of prints that visualized the popular band’s electronic music. Benjamin experimented with form and colour throughout his artistic career. Edition 41 of 80.

“To rationalize my own work is easy, but I don’t want to rationalize it for in rationalizing it one seems to be led by what seems rational.”
Anthony Benjamin

Born in England in 1931, he first studied draughting at a technical College in 1947 and was accepted as an engineering draughtsman at the University of Westminster (1950–1954). After only one year of school, he travelled to Paris and studied for three months with a modern French artist, sculptor and filmmaker, Fernand Léger. He continued his studies in Paris after graduation having won a one-year scholarship for painting and printmaking. Benjamin taught and lectured at schools in England, the U.S., in Calgary and at York University in Toronto. He returned to London and moved to the country in Norfolk in the mid 1980’s. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Anthony Benjamin died in 2002. His work can be found in public and private collections.