Benjamin Senior is a contemporary figurative artist from Southampton, UK, who currently lives and works in London. He holds an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art, and has exhibited his work at Art Basel Hong Kong and at Frieze New York.

Many of Senior’s works resemble carefully choreographed scenes, depicting figures engaged in leisurely activities like swimming. Some compositions abstract the human form, reducing it to more simple geometric shapes, which are echoed by the graphic patterns he incorporates in the clothing of his figures and in the flattened background. His works combine bright, energetic colours with a sense of voyeurism. The artist first began drawing at the age of three, and states: ‘I think of painting and drawing as world-building.