Art Exhibition - Ben Edge/Ben Westley Clarke Contemporary Folklore

Leyden Gallery are pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by artists Ben Edge and Ben Clarke, who are both London-based figurative painters with an enduring interest in Folk Art and ‘primitive’ art forms. Edge moved to London to study fine art whilst also developing a career as a musician and songwriter playing in the punk band Thee Spivs and his recently started group, The Electric Pencils. Before moving to London to study art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade, Clarke was a singer in the punk band The Hat Brothers.

Both artists, with their idiosyncratic painterly languages, make icons and create folklore out of contemporary culture and recent histories whilst transforming the conventional portrait into a poetic metaphor for the fragility of existence.