Ben Carmichael came to the course with a love for drawing and painting the landscape but a sharp wit emerged in response to the many briefs he has been given. These combined in his final project with a picturesque take on the landscape embedded with small details of animals up to no good. He encouraged the viewer to be taken up with the landscape as a whole before being surprised by the small detail lurking at the edge of the painting. At the private view this tactic never failed.
