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Anna Freeman Bentley

Visual Arts
@afreemanbentley
Group show ‘Handpicked’ @kettlesyard now open ‘Conduits’ solo show at @lehmannmaupin London opening 3rd June
  • Art & DIY
  • Following 1.6K
  • Followers 6.6K
  • Engagement 2.23%
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About Anna Freeman Bentley

Anna Freeman Bentley (@afreemanbentley) is a Visual Arts creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 6,603 followers and 820 published posts. Recent posts average 137 likes and 6 comments, an engagement rate of 2.23%.

Anna Freeman Bentley belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Anna Freeman Bentley follows 1,625 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4.1 times the size of the list followed. Anna Freeman Bentley is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Anna Freeman Bentley under Visual Arts, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Anna Freeman Bentley runs to 15 words across 2 lines. The bio mentions @kettlesyard and @lehmannmaupin. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Anna Freeman Bentley dates from May 2026.

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Up next in London: Anna Freeman Bentley presents ‘Conduits’ at our Mayfair gallery.

Through her use of veils, drapery, and fabric coverings, the London-based artist examines how spaces are shaped by function, class, aspiration, and time.

Join us for the opening reception with on Wednesday, June 3 from 6–8 PM. Plus, our opening weekend coincides with. In celebration, we will host special extended hours on Sunday, June 7 from 12–5 PM.

#AnnaFreemanBentley #LehmannMaupin #LondonGalleryWeekend
FINAL WEEK | It is the last week to visit Anna Freeman Bentley’s solo exhibition, « Reflections », which continues at Canopy Collections HQ until 24 April.

Anna Freeman Bentley’s work explores the emotional and social resonances of interior spaces. Her practice focuses on rooms, shops, warehouses, private clubs, bars and other architectural environments, transforming them into sites that evoke memory and suggest human presence without ever depicting people. Her paintings are distinguished by a rich, moody palette and expressive brushwork, blending careful observation with poetic reinterpretation.

« While the term ‘study’ holds historical associations of a roughly hewn en plein air sketch, Freeman Bentley’s take the form of large-scale oils that are imbued with the same rich palette and compositional rigour found in her works on canvas. They also hold a sense of immediacy and gestural liberation that the artist admits can be hard to replicate. ‘My work is best when I’m not overthinking it,’ she says, ‘and works on paper give me the biggest sense of freedom’. »
—Holly E J Black, Contributing Arts Editor at The World of Interiors

Anna Freeman Bentley | Reflections
until 24 April, 11am–6pm
Canopy Collections HQ
3 Bloomsbury Place
London WC1A 2QA
I'm really excited to announce my inclusion in 'Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today' at
opening next week 25 April and running till 6 September 2026

When invited me to respond to the flowers on display in the house of Jim and Helen Ede at Kettle's Yard, it was hard to say no. I've always found the house so poised and heavy with the felt presence of Jim and Helen. I hope my painting does some justice to their lasting personality, explored through the transcience of cut flowers.

Arrangement III
2025
Oil on panel
60 x 50cm

Artists:
Hurvin Anderson, Vanessa Bell, David Bomberg, Louise Bourgeois, Jai Chuhan, Andrew Cranston, Kaye Donachie, Gigi Ettedgui, Anna Freeman Bentley, Marjory Garnett, Tirzah Garwood, Gluck, Lubaina Himid, Howard Hodgkin, Isak of Igdlorpait, Nerys Johnson, David Jones, Poppy Jones, Joy Labinjo, Doron Langberg, Aubrey Levinthal, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Rory McEwen, Cedric Morris, Cassi Namoda, Mary Newcomb, William Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Chris Ofili, Jennifer Packer, Celia Paul, Bryan Pearce, Emma Prempeh, Bianca Raffaella, Eric Ravilious, Anne Redpath, Henri Rousseau, William Scott, Judith Tucker, Euan Uglow, Charlotte Verity, Édouard Vuillard, Caroline Walker, Alison Watt, Christopher Wood, and Clare Woods.

I've been visiting Kettles Yard for many years so it's a real joy to be exhibiting there amongst so many incredible artists and friends.
Anna Freeman Bentley’s solo exhibition “Reflections” continues at Canopy Collections HQ until 24 April. This is the first exhibition dedicated to the artist’s paintings on paper, and to the motif of reflection within her work.

« Reflective echoes are frequently coded within mirrors, with all their associations of vanity, wisdom and self-knowledge. In ‘Study for Vanity of vanities’ and ‘Study for Cast room’ (both 2024) for instance, the artist uses physically imposing examples to dissect the reality of what she is seeing, before reassembling it. These images feature a notable flattening of perspective that is not only informed by these oversized, fun-house reflections, but the reams of photographs the artist captures as vital source material. The adroit interplay of light and darkness, too, is channelled through various reflective surfaces, such as the polished top of a hardwood dressing table, or the diffractions that occur when the sun hits a glass vase filled with water.»

— Text by Holly E J Black, Contributing Arts Editor at

Anna Freeman Bentley | Reflections
5 March–24 April 2026
Canopy Collections HQ
3 Bloomsbury Place
London WC1A 2QA
We tend to think a painter finds their voice on canvas. Often, they find their freedom somewhere else first.

During a recent visit to Anna Freeman Bentley’s studio, she spoke about the role her paintings on paper play in her process. For Anna, these works aren’t secondary or preparatory in a conventional sense. They’re a space of freedom – what she calls an “inhibitionless” way of working – where ideas can expand, shift, and take unexpected directions.

Those discoveries travel with her when she takes to the canvas, carrying the emotional, technical and conceptual insights that emerge along the way.

Anna Freeman Bentley’s first exhibition dedicated to her paintings on paper is currently on view at.

#AnnaFreemanBentley #ArtistStudio #StudioVisit #Painting
NOW OPEN | Many thanks to all of you who attended the opening of « Reflections » by Anna Freeman Bentley yesterday. The exhibition is now open until 24 April at Canopy Collections HQ. We’re looking forward to welcoming you to discover the very first exhibition dedicated to Anna Freeman Bentley’s paintings on paper.

« Reflections is an apt term with which to underpin the work of Anna Freeman Bentley. It suggests plurality, self-perception and artifice — all themes that she has long explored within her painting practice. Although her chosen subjects are often referred to as ‘domestic interiors’, the worlds she articulates are in fact ones of illusion and refraction. In each work, she blurs the lines between fact and fiction, embedding the viewer in the strange subterfuge of her chosen scene, whether it be a luxuriously furnished house-turned-film set in Saudi Arabia, or the meticulously curated belongings that populate Kettle’s Yard (the modernist gesamtkunstwerk and former home of Jim and Helen Ede, in Cambridge).

These are not reflections of a quotidian reality, but rather an interior sense of self that has been carefully poised for a viewing public — something that is ultimately staged. These fragile projections are reimagined through one final prism, in the form of the deft strokes of Freeman Bentley’s brush. The ragged edges of artful deception sometimes feature too, be it an incongruous light source that suggests a cinematic rig, or a fanciful collection of oversized pink blooms. »
— Text by Holly E J Black, Contributing Arts Editor at

Anna Freeman Bentley | Reflections
5 March–24 April 2026
Canopy Collections HQ
3 Bloomsbury Place
London WC1A 2QA
I'm looking forward to showing this and other works on paper in my show 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 that opens next week, Thursday 5th March.

Please come! I've never had a show of entirely works on paper before and I'm excited about the opportunity to view and discuss them as separate from the paintings on canvas that they inspire.

Thanks to Louise, Cecile and the team
SAVE THE DATE | We are delighted to announce ‘Reflections’, an exhibition by Anna Freeman Bentley (b. 1982) and the first show dedicated entirely to the artist’s paintings on paper, as well as the motif of reflection within her work.

Anna Freeman Bentley’s work explores the emotional and social resonances of interior spaces. Her works are distinguished by a rich, moody palette and expressive brushwork, blending careful observation with poetic reinterpretation. Through these figure-less interiors, she creates spaces filled with narratives that hint at the lives and histories that have passed through them.

Anna Freeman Bentley | Reflections
5 March—24 April 2026
Private View: Thursday 5 March, 6—8pm
Canopy Collections HQ
3 Bloomsbury Place
London WC1A 2QA
Some of the other acrylic studies that I made in preparation for my Digital Art Schools workshop with

Image 1
Incandescence, 2025
Acrylic on paper
23 x 30.5cm

Image 2
The end of the afternoon, 2025
Acrylic on paper
22 x 33cm

Image 3
Shadows, 2025
Acrylic on paper
17 x 23cm

If you know my work well enough, you might recognise some of the subject matter from years gone by...

Photography by #annaarca
These are the two works on paper that I made for the digital art school filming. It was fun to apply my oil painting techniques to working with acrylic paint on watercolour paper. Some effects were consistent with my oil on paper sketches and some seemed new and exciting...

Image 1: Dusk approaching, 2025
Acrylic on paper
23 x 30.5cm

Image 2: Props for the stage, 2025
Acrylic on paper
19 x 27cm

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Anna Freeman Bentley's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.23%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 45 followers. An average post collects 137 likes and 6 comments, close to 23 likes for each comment.

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Who is Anna Freeman Bentley?

Anna Freeman Bentley (@afreemanbentley) is a Visual Arts creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Anna Freeman Bentley is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Anna Freeman Bentley runs to 15 words across 2 lines.

How many followers does Anna Freeman Bentley have?

Anna Freeman Bentley has 6,603 followers on Instagram (6.6K). Anna Freeman Bentley follows 1,625 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4.1 times the size of the list followed. Anna Freeman Bentley has built a substantial archive of 820 posts.

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Anna Freeman Bentley's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.23%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 45 followers. An average post collects 137 likes and 6 comments, close to 23 likes for each comment.

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Flinque files Anna Freeman Bentley under Visual Arts, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Anna Freeman Bentley, 9 are carousels and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Anna Freeman Bentley repeatedly use the words paper, paintings, bentley’s, april and work. Anna Freeman Bentley's captions carry hashtags such as #annafreemanbentley, #lehmannmaupin and #londongalleryweekend. Anna Freeman Bentley writes those captions mainly in English. Anna Freeman Bentley keeps 4 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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