Church Times - Art review: Richard Kenton Webb: ‘Passion’ drawings + ‘English Iconoclasm Paintings’ (Benjamin Rhodes Arts, London E2)

My latest exhibition review for Church Times , is on Richard Kenton Webb: ‘Passion’ drawings + ‘English Iconoclasm Paintings’ at Benjamin Rhodes Arts:

'By viewing Webb’s English Iconoclasm images, we enter deeply into the experience and nature of mysticism through images visualising the extent of the Cloud of Unknowing and the approach to it or the possibility of climbing the ladder of perfection and reaching for the light of Christ.

These mystical images are formed, however, from the stuff of earthly existence, meaning that Webb recognises that mysticism has an incarnational rather than a solely visionary basis.'

Read my interview with Kenton Webb for Art+Christianity here, my article on Kenton Webb's exhibition at Milton's Cottage is here, and my Church Times review of an earlier Kenton Webb exhibition here. Kenton Webb is part of a group of artists who create in the tradition of British visionary art, for more on this group see here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here, those for Seen & Unseen are here, and those for Art+Christianity are here.

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