Benet Spencer is a graduate of the Royal Academy schools, he has exhibited widely in London and prominant exhibitions have included a collaboration with notable Royal Academicians for AT Kearney's Londinium to London 1999 and was awarded the Unipart Reflections of Technology prize in 1995. He is a lecturer in art at John Moores University in Liverpool and lives in London.
Spencer's slick portrayals of airports, landing strips and planes refelect his continuing interest in responding to everyday subjects. These seemingly banal subjects are transformed into majestic and epic scenes through Spencer's lovingly rendered paintwork. That the most severe urban space can still rovide such an aesthetic expereince is the key to these paintings, a kind of sublime neon landsacpe, entirely synthetic yet undeniably beautiful.