Exhibition: The House Is Full (But No One’s Home)

In The House is Full (But No One’s Home), two painters explore the emotional architecture of the everyday: the streets we live on, the rooms we move through, and the quiet spaces where life unfolds unnoticed.  James Hunter paints suburbia as a place of contradiction, orderly yet disorienting, comforting yet lonely. His carefully cropped compositions, rich with immersive light and bold colour, reveal a world that feels both familiar and distant. Benjamin Alden, by contrast, brings us inside. His figurative paintings are layered with symbolism and mood, casting domestic interiors as sites of psychological narrative. Here, people and objects carry quiet significance.

James Hunter is a British contemporary landscape painter living and working in Norwich. In his creative practice, Hunter explores the theme of Suburbia. Working mainly in oils he uses tightly cropped compositions, bold colour and immersive light to create snap shots of moments in time.

Benjamin 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.

Location: The Art Space, Cass Art Kingston

Dates: 3rd - 29th August 2026

Admission: FREE

Please note, this exhibition takes place on the first floor and there is no step-free access.