Did you know that Benjamin MacGregor has created a series of limited edition giclee prints of select works from this exhibition?
Beautiful quality, created with archival inks, signed and numbered - in a small edition of just 20. Run, don’t walk! 🏃♀️
Here are some of the artworks available, but they can all be browsed online via the link in bio!
We are now half way through ‘Foundations’ - Benjamin MacGregor’s debut exhibition, featuring works by his sister Bella MacGregor AND his winner’s commission on loan from The Courtauld Gallery. Here is a quick peek into this extraordinary show…
With paintings selling fast, drop by to see us or request the catalogue. The collection is truly remarkable and we are so proud to host it here in Hackney!
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The winning Sky Arts Landscape @artistoftheyear commission is now on display in the LVMH Great Room! ✨
Artist Ben MacGregor @benjamin_macgregor_art visited the south of France to be inspired by the same landscapes as artists like Van Gogh, Cezanne and Manet, to produce his own contemporary painting.
Take a closer look at Ben’s final piece, In the Shadow Of Sainte-Victoire 🎨
⏰ On display at The Courtauld Gallery until June. Included with Gallery Entry tickets. Book now – link in bio 👆
🍿 Catch up with @artistoftheyear on @skyarts
The gallery will be transformed tomorrow in preparation for Chris Thompson’s solo exhibition, but today I have been enjoying this curation showing my own watercolour and oil pastel artworks alongside this large, immersive beauty by Benjamin MacGregor - ‘Chelsea Pavement’.
Ben is one of my art heroes - I fell in love with his unusual, delicious mark-making when watching Landscape Artist of the Year 2025, so I’m delighted to have his paintings hanging in the gallery - with some more new pieces arriving soon.
I hope you all enjoyed the sunshine today! ☀️
If you have walked past the gallery in the last couple of weeks you may have noticed this huge painting ‘Chelsea Pavement’ adorning our gallery window. It’s a special piece - full of tiny, fizzing brushstrokes.
Ben’s representation here is more playful - simplifying the compositional elements and allowing the piece to wander into abstraction. Our attention is drawn to the incredible detail in that hedge, the browning Magnolia leaves on the floor and the little geometric footprints that appear on them. I love that pattern and repetition are key elements of this extraordinary painting. Swipe 👉🏼 to take a closer (and wider) look… 👀
✨‘Les Baux’ by Benjamin MacGregor ✨
This quiet, gentle painting was inspired by Ben’s time in the South of France for Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2025. The piece depicts the ruins of a medieval fortress in Les Baux, Château des Baux-de-Provence. On the sign Ben has written ‘here was a terrifying horse’ (en français) - alluding to an earlier painting of a horse which lies beneath the strokes of paint. 🐎
It’s a painting which subtly asks us to step forward and get closer to the brushstrokes. Swipe 👉🏼 to see the tapestry of marks which make this painting so special…
In ‘After the Birth of Venus’ Ben takes us to a fully imagined dreamscape. Moving gently between representation and abstraction, our eyes move across the surface of the painting as we make sense of the shapes and textures.
Dive into the details 👉🏼 to explore this strange and mysterious landscape. Painted in a subtle palette of pastels - this piece is all about texture - from rippling water to grassy hills, rocky terrain and pops of unexpected pattern.
I love how elusive and ethereal this painting is - hinting at narrative and yet resisting full comprehension.
These cheeky, playful fellas have gathered lots of love over the last few weeks! ‘Box of Fish Heads’ is one of Ben’s favourite pieces and an early example of his painterly style, before he discovered the visual language he uses now.
You can see signs of the style that would become distinctively Ben’s in the texture around the fish and the offbeat composition and perspective. There is something quite charming about this piece and I admire how he can translate the subject matter into a joyful piece of painting!
Do you notice the difference between these brushstrokes and the marks in Ben’s landscape paintings?
One of the most exciting parts of ‘Foundations’ is Ben’s collaboration with his sister, photographer Bella MacGregor. A photoshoot in Richmond Park led to Ben’s exploration of the figure in landscape and this beautiful, haunting work ‘A Bird in Hand’.
The figure has been painted with a subtlety and slight ghostliness - a restrained use of colour and incredible attention to textural detail. Swipe 👉🏼 to see the marks which capture the lace detail on the dress!
🌱 And then there’s the extraordinary backdrop of those ferns - layered, lush and almost abstracted by Ben’s unique mark-making.
It’s an incredibly powerful artwork and there is still time to see it! Foundations is on for the next week, so drop in to stand in front of these immersive works and take in all the exquisite brushstrokes…
👀 Look what has joined us for the last week of the exhibition! Ben’s painting from the semi-final of Landscape Artist of the Year in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (my home town!) 🥳
Instead of painting The Warrior as expected, Ben turned his attention to the nearby jetty and we got this excellent exploration of texture, colour and composition. The overlooked and mundane completely transformed by Ben’s visual language.
Swipe 👉🏼 for more gorgeous details and get in touch with any Qs…
I spied this piece on Ben’s studio wall when I popped in to see him back in July - it immediately caught my attention and I knew we needed it in the exhibition. I love the perspective and the way the brushstrokes summon the texture of stone so well. It has a real immediacy and weight.
Named ‘Possibly Uccello’s House’, it is based on a building which could have been where Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello stayed whilst working in Venice between 1425 and 1430. Ben has a connection to this piece as Uccello’s ‘The Battle of San Romano’ is one of his favourite paintings, a piece that he has spent many hours in front of.
It’s an absolute treasure - and at the small scale of 34 x 34 cm framed. Swipe 👉🏼 to see the gorgeous solid oak framing!
