About the Artist and his Works:

Award winning artist Mike Fenner is one of the founder members of the National Acrylic Painters' Association. He has exhibited regularly with NAPA, and has taken part in other group exhibitions both in the UK and abroad. He has also had several Solo Exhibitions, at the Williamson Art Gallery, Hanover Art Gallery (Liverpool), and the Durham University Gallery.

Mike works exclusively in acrylics and has won several awards for his application of acrylics to gain the effect of older oil techniques.

His interests in painting are working figuratively in a style, which combines early Renaissance techniques with symbolic and iconic overtones. Currently Mike is exploring Breton mythology as a basis for subject matter, particularly the myth of "Dahud" and the island of Ys.

"...I believe in the truth of myth and its continuing relevance; the power of symbol-ideas; underlying the fleeting external objective world, there is the substratum of history, mysticism, and the collective unconscious. To integrate these elements is the aim of my work."

Mike Fenner 1998