Group Exhibition
Five contemporary painters exploring landscape, nature and the ways we see the world around us.
12 November – 19 December 2026
Opening Thursday 12 November, 6–9pm | Free Entry
The Wood for the Trees brings together Al Bell, Jonathan Hooper, Sophia Ponté, Tereza Horáček and James D. Wilson, five contemporary painters who approach the natural landscape through distinct ways of seeing and making. Trees, woodland and organic forms recur throughout, with each artist occupying a different position between observation and interpretation.
Together, the artists show how far the same subject can be shaped through the act of painting. Transformed by material, memory and feeling, each landscape becomes less fixed and more subjective, while still retaining a sense of familiarity.
The title borrows from the expression “can’t see the wood for the trees” and turns it around. The exhibition becomes a playful invitation to move between the details and the bigger picture. In doing so, it returns to one of painting’s oldest subjects and asks what it can still reveal.
Al Bell’s paintings explore the shifting light and atmospheres of the Scottish landscape. His work invites viewers to slow down and engage with the energy of the changing weather and the subtleties of light that defines the land. The landscapes are reduced to loose marks that depict observations shaped by feeling and memory.
Tereza Horáček draws on imagined landscape and the history of painting, reworking echoes of seventeenth-century Dutch and English pastoral traditions into places that feel strangely timeless.
James D. Wilson creates collaged paintings which push recognisable forms within the landscape towards a striking graphic visual language. Taken from observational field notes or from memories of time spent in a place, they have a provisional feeling to them.
Sophia Ponté’s work begins with close observation and sensory encounters with the natural world. Her delicate works touch on the sensitivities of the landscape around her, where drawing and the physicality of material play an important role.
Jonathan Hooper depicts landscapes informed by familiar memories, for instance, the parks he used to take his children. However, Hooper’s use of heightened, non-naturalistic colour turns these remembered places into something more subjective.
Installation photographs will be added once the exhibition opens.
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The Wood for the Trees
12 November – 19 December 2026
Well Hung Gallery
239 Hoxton Street
London N1 5LG
Free Entry
Anna Mac is a painter whose work moves between imagined interiors, domestic spaces, urban scenes and everyday moments. Her paintings are built from simplified forms, flattened planes of colour and carefully balanced compositions, creating scenes that sit somewhere between observation, memory and abstraction.
Often working with recurring motifs such as chairs, rooms, pathways, figures and architectural fragments, Mac uses familiar subjects as a way to explore stillness, solitude and the quiet emotional charge of everyday spaces. Objects and figures are reduced to their essential forms, allowing colour, light and composition to take precedence over detail.
Light and shadow play an important role in her visual language. Blocks of tone divide rooms, paths, walls and surfaces, while cast shadows help anchor figures, furniture and architectural elements within the image. Her use of bold, earthy colour creates a sense of warmth and calm, with each painting carefully balanced between structure and atmosphere.
Particularly drawn to architectural forms and spatial arrangements, Mac’s work often shifts between interior and exterior space. A room, street, pathway or garden can become a set of abstract shapes, with perspective, colour and light used to create images that feel both recognisable and quietly removed from the everyday.
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