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Benjamin King

Benjamin King's landscapes navigate the liminal space between the familiar and the uncanny. His work focuses on the elemental nature of the forest, offering a perspective that transcends our often limited, human-centered sense of time and place. His waterways pull the viewer into unpeopled environments that nevertheless vibrate with life.

King’s process is one of layering and accumulation. He builds his surfaces with rich impasto, incorporating sand and thick paint to evoke the sedimentary history of fertile marshes. His impressionistic use of dotted leaves captures the fleeting vitality of trees bathed in sunlight. Foliage ignites with fiery golds and reds, while cool geometries of rock and lunar twilight emerge—sometimes within the same canvas.

For King, the canvas is a site of continual revision. He often paints over older works, allowing traces of earlier images to subtly resonate within the new. This cycle of erasure and renewal reflects the regenerative forces of nature—like controlled burns that clear away the old to make way for growth. Through this process, King’s paintings invite contemplation of the elemental forces that shape and reshape our world.

Exhibitions

  1. Group Exhibition Layers of the land

    Brussels November 11 — December 20, 2025

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