Zoe Benbow

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ZOE BENBOW


“My paintings aim to communicate a sense of awe and enjoyment in landscape. They reference the European genre as a means of questioning our cultural construct of wilderness and our relationship to the natural world . The images are developed from drawings made ‘in the field’ yet by an intense engagement with the processes of painting and studio practice, the resulting canvases become as much a meditation on a geology of association and memory as of actual place.”

Zoe Benbow was born in 1963. She lives and works in London and the Tarn Valley, France. Having graduated from The Royal College of Art in 1989, she has held several artists residencies including at Delfina Studios and research periods in Switzerland, Andalucia, Finland and South India. She is represented in many public and private collections including, Queen Mary University London, Manchester City Art Gallery, The British Council and The Royal Palace of Jordan. When looking at Benbow’s paintings things are never as they first appear. What is perceived as foreground can easily switch to background and vice-versa. In the shifting nature of the image, the spatial position we occupy as an observer is questioned. The paintings throw the viewer headlong into the landscape, whilst challenging any pre-conceived sense of separateness from the environment.


Tarn Trees Oil on canvas 183 x 213 cm


Edge Oil on canvas 210 x 185 cm


Western Sea Oil on canvas, 183 x 244 cm


Of Rocks Remote Oil on canvas, 120 x 175 cm


Red Seascape Oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm


Cliffs Of North Mayo Oil on canvas, 122 x 158 cm


Small Island Oil on canvas 91 x 110 cm


Stony Vale Oil on canvas 183 x 213 cm


Flint Like Oil on canvas 91 x 110 cm, 2013


Wild Wave Oil on canvas, 183 x 244 cm, 2012


Irish Seascape Oil on canvas 92 x 107 cm, 2011


Tree Shadow Oil on canvas 92 x 103 cm, 2014


Two Trees Yellow Oil on canvas, 122 x 158 cm, 2014


Yellow Copse Oil on canvas, 122 x 158 cm, 2015


Forest Floor Oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm, 2015


Amber Forest Oil on canvas 178 x 214 cm


Hampstead Tree Oil on canvas 148 x 178 cm


Coast Path Oil on canvas, 92 x 137 cm


River Trees Contra Jour Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2015


River Trees Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2015


Riverside Tree Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2015


Selected Exhibitions

2014 2014 2013-14

2012

2010 2009 2008

Shifting Light, Moorgate Exchange- VJB Arts Project EC2, London REDHANDED, Cromer Street, London WC1 Where we begin to look, Landscape and Poetry 2014 Touring exhibition commissioned by The Poetry Society – Small World Theatre Cardigan, Hebden Bridge Poetry Festival, Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University, Norwich Arts Centre and Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, UK Western Seas, Hammerson Project, Threadneedle Street, UK Western Seas, Hammerson Project, Gresham Street, London Wild Wild Waves- Hay Hill Gallery, London Wild Path, Hay Hill Gallery, London Wayfarer, Hammerson Project, Grosvenor Street, London Sentier Sauvage, ANPQ Foundation, France Solo Exhibition, La Galeria, Barcelona August Art, Wenlock Basin, London


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