Bennett, Steve Title: No Room for Error

Steve Bennett No Room for Error Oil Pastel and Pencil on Rag Board  25 x 38, framed to 29 x 42" $1450 Second Place Prints are also available for $50 each   F-1 aces Piquet, Jones, and Villeneuve hurl their ultra exotic machines into a corner, separated only by inches at speeds that generate G forces only seen in jet fighters. The great English driver Stirling Moss described this as “dabbling on the boundary of disaster."   Artist's Statement: My favorite description of auto racing is “a place where insanity and reason co-exist”. Using oil pastels and pencils, I strive to capture that very essence of the sport.  With oil pastels, I create rich, textured surfaces that embody the complexity of my subjects -- the insanity, if you will. Pencil provides the reason -- the precision of fine details and subtle nuances.  This combination of materials weds bold intensity with subtle layering, a combination which, while often messy and complex, is rife with meaning. balancing racing's vibrant emot