Philip Bennetta is a poet and artist, and he and his wife, the artist Susan BENNETTA live on Bodmin moor. He studied contemporary arts at Christ Church College, Canterbury, Dartington Hall College of Arts and Kent Institute of Art & Design, and gained an MA from Lancaster University in 1990. His career has included community based arts projects with young offenders.

Bennetta describes his work thus: 'I work in subject sensitive media and make paintings, drawings, soft sculpture, poems, pamphlets, artist's books and film as part of the creative process.