‘Forest Paths’, Zoe Benbow
Felstead Art presents Forest Paths: Perceptions of Landscape and Memory, a solo exhibition by Zoe Benbow.
The exhibition will run from 20th April to 26th June 2026, with a private view taking place on 17th April from 6–8pm.
Felstead Art, Threadneedle, 60 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8HP
For further information, please contact info@felsteadart.com or call 020 8616 2292 / 07835 277709, or visit www.felsteadart.com.
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Zoe Benbow is a studio-based independent artist with 33 years professional experience and lives in Hackney with her teenage son.
At a time when we have all had to stay close to home, Zoe’s recent paintings explore the subject of trees as an expression of an accessible wilderness on our doorstep.
These paintings developed in her London studio and inspired by photographs and drawings gathered in the wooded landscapes of Grasmere touch on landscape as remembered in fleeting moments.
By revisiting these images through the processes of painting and repeatedly exploring the same motifs over a long period of time, the canvases become about an implied landscape, a landscape of the mind’s eye. They reference the artist’s accumulated experience of other landscapes in time and place.
It is perhaps in this way, that the paintings attempt to be like poetry, by proposing to give us fragments of time and intrigue, mapping points by which we can colour the bigger picture to reimagine and reframe our individual and ultimately universal experience.