Welcome to BenHoole.com - Home of Australian Artist BEN HOOLE

I'm building a new website here and will be offline for a little while. In the meantime, you can check out my art and handmade jewellery at https://instagram.com/hooleben.

ABOUT BEN HOOLE (MBA., MPET., B.Comm.)

I have around 25 years of professional experience as a multidiscipline fine artist, designer and craftsman. As a visual artist, I strive to adapt traditional techniques to a digital art workflow, employing both adaptations of classical methods and some fairly cutting-edge 3d/ CG tools and approaches. I typically handpaint in Rebelle software, and aim to create art pieces which are both detailed and rich in painterly character. Most paintings take me 3-6 weeks to complete.

When not painting, I enjoy designing and making jewellery. Much like painting, I approach jewellery design and smithing through a combination of computer design and hands-on traditional metalworking practices - often spending my days bouncing between my PC and studio workshop.

Thematically, I endeavour to create uplifting visual art and silverwork which is a celebration of divine love, beauty, and those things that (family aside) matter most to me - my faith, freedom, country living and the most admirable qualities of the human spirit. I create all day (often up to 13-14 hours), every day, and, as an artist, it's most important to me that my time makes a positive difference in the world, even if my impact is small.

Academically, I hold an undergraduate degree in commerce, a Master's degree in business administration and a Master's degree in professional education and training. My art and craft training, however, is mostly informal and hands-on, employing artistic and crafting techniques and workflows developed over many years of informal professional study and practice, rather than out of a book.

I grew up on the land, currently live in regional Queensland with my wife and daughter, and am a long-time (app. 40yrs) boxer, natural bodybuilder and black-belt martial artist. My wife, Jacqui, is a fellow artisan, who both helps me create jewellery and runs Australia's premiere dance headwear label at JacquiHoole.com.au.