Painter Jordan Bent is concerned with connection - with the unspoken and unshown realms of character. In exploring what is hidden in the caches of experience, his paintings depict the ties between the object and the seeker, the need and the giver, the inspiration and the reflective. For Bent, painting is not about appeasing an ideal; It is a quest fr knowledge through an understanding of the world, the seld and the unseen. Speaking avidly with symbol and boldly with colour, his paintings express something much more than a collection of forms - more odf a stylized feeling of what it is to be human.