Ben Whitehouse (b. 1962, London, UK) studied at Wake Forest University where he received his BA, and at the University of Chicago where he received his MFA. Whitehouse combines British landscape tradition with awe-inspiring American landscapes. After finishing graduate school in 1991, he established a studio in Chicago, painting the areas around Lake Michigan. Wading into the middle of streams and rivers, he painted for hours a day, recording the environment with meticulous brushwork. The critic James Wood, writing for Artforum, observes, "Whitehouse offers nature both complete and denuded: pristine, as if we viewers were the first living things ever to encounter this virgin territory, a peaceful emptiness so vast that it cannot help but offer psychological balm."
Whitehouse’s work has appeared in several solo and themed group shows at Gallery Henoch, as well as being exhibited in many museums including the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX.