Artist Ben Alden in his studio

Bio

Ben Alden is an award winning contemporary figurative painter living and working in Norwich, Norfolk, UK. 

Ben Alden examines figurative art through a narrative lens. Within his paintings, evocative and ambiguous scenes hint at stories hidden within.
Alden is particularly interested in the quiet strangeness of contemporary life and how familiar spaces can serve as backdrops for psychological storytelling, tension, and memory. Domestic interiors, in particular, become charged environments in his paintings, places where stillness and symbolism coexist, emotionally loaded yet visually calm, imbued with a sense of quiet unease.

Awards:

2022    The Royal Watercolour Society Award. The Society of East Anglian Watercolourists 
2020    Public Choice Award. The Society of East Anglian Watercolourists.

Selected Exhibitions:

2025     Moments. Purist Gallery, London.
2025     EAST. The Bank Arts Centre, Eye.
2024     DISTANCE BETWEEN: Solo Exhibition. Gray Area Gallery. Norwich.
2024     Unconsumed II. St Mary's Works, Norwich.
2024     TBA Artist Collective: 008 5 Years. St Mary's Works, Norwich.
2023     Norfolk Open Studios Exhibition. The Forum, Norwich.
2023     Colour. Cromer Art Space, Cromer.
2022     ING Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries, London.
2022     Norfolk Open Studios. Norwich.
2022     T.B.A Artist Collective: 007. Carnival. The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich.
2022     Awash. Handa Gallery, Wells-next-the-sea.
2021      Figurative Art Now. Mall Galleries, Online.
2021      Figura 21. St Margarets Church of Art, Norwich
2021      Waterways. Babylon Gallery, Ely.
2021      Summer Open Exhibition. The Assembly House Trust, Norwich.
2020     SEAW Selected Exhibition. Society of East Anglian Watercolourists,                  online.
2020      T.B.A Artist Collective: 04. St Margaret’s Church of Arts, Norwich.
2020      Em-Re-Un Presents: Emanate. Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich.
2019      Paint In Progress. Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich
2019      Em-Re-Un Presents: Consume. Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich
2018      Connection. Handa Gallery, Wells-Next-The-Sea