Al Bell
Al Bell’s paintings explore the shifting light and atmosphere of the Scottish landscape. His work invites viewers to slow down and engage with the subtleties of light, form and feeling that define the land.
The Wood for the Trees
Group Exhibition
The Wood for the Trees
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
About the Exhibition
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 the natural landscape recur throughout, with each artist occupying a different position between observation and interpretation.
Each of the artists shows examples of how far a single subject matter can be shaped through the act of painting. Transformed by material, memory and feeling, each observed landscape becomes an intangible place which still evokes 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.
Exhibiting Artists
Tereza Horáček
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
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
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
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 Views
Installation photographs will be added once the exhibition opens.
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Visit the Exhibition
The Wood for the Trees
12 November – 19 December 2026
Well Hung Gallery
239 Hoxton Street
London N1 5LG
Free Entry