Miranda Benzies
ALL PAINTINGS
 Sea_Painting.jpg |  Deluge in London.jpg |  dark red abstract.jpg |
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 Orange Army.jpg |  Bigbury.jpg |  Chelesea Bridge.jpg |
 Water, Bigbury.jpg |  Dartmouth castle.jpg |  Untitled.jpg |
 Storm_small.jpg |  Burning_bush_small.jpg |  Wilderness.jpg |
 Redrock.jpg |  Storm_small.jpg |  dark red abstract.jpg |
 Sir Henry Upton.jpg |  Face in Ivy.jpg |  Analogue.jpg |
 ThamesIII.jpg |  Thames 1.jpg |  Thames 4, nature Returns.jpg |
 Paula_s.jpg |  P1040749.jpg |  Self port 3.jpg |
 Olivier.jpg |  Patrick.jpg |  Mother Nature_2.jpg |
 Lazare 3quarts.jpg |  Osita.jpg |  self portrait.jpg |
 Fiorenza.jpg |  Jamie 2013.jpg |  Egg and me in Covent Gardens.JPG |
 Miranda_Benzies_IMG_2475.jpg |  Jamie.jpg |  screens.jpg |
 duck.jpg |  Woman in a Gown.jpg |  Evolution.jpg |
 Evolution_2.jpg |  Chicken.png |  McQueen.jpg |
 Couple at a Dance.jpg |  Cave.jpg |  Hallsands landscape 01.jpg |
 Fruits of the sea.jpg |  Heavens Above.jpg |  Cloud Nine.jpg |
 Magic Box.jpg |  Millennium_Bridge.jpg |  London FaceOil on wood, 60x70cm, 2011 |
 waterloo bridge.jpg |  Going Down.jpg |  London Eye.jpg |
 Waterloo Bridge at Night.jpg |  London Lady IlOil on wood, 30x30cm, 2013. |  Pink TowersOil on wood, 30x30cm, 2013. |
 London Lady IIIOil on wood, 30x30cm, 2013. |  London LadyOil on wood, 30x30cm, 2013. |  London Lady In the ParkOil on wood, 40x50cm, 2013. |
 Waterloo BridgeOil on wood, 30x70cm, 2012. | Going DownOil on canvas, 20x30cm, 2012. |  Waterloo Bridge at NightOil on wood, 25x60cm, 2013. |
Living in London the London Face paintings are a response to my surroundings.
In this series I combine London architecture and human faces to create anthropomorphic landscapes. I am exploring the relationship between people and their environment in the city, how at once they are interwoven – the architecture tells a story of people who have built, lived and worked in the city since the Romans, and how there is an unease, the city can be a harsh, anonymous and unnatural place to live.
Working from sketches, photographs and memory I aim to capture the clashing harmony of the old and new and our relationship with the ever-changing urban landscape.
I generally paint on wood as it is responsive to working in fine detail rendering the many textures of steel, concrete, wood and brick.
Click here to watch London Live interview about this series.
© Miranda Benzies