The Seven Deadly Sins, 2023

A series of monotypes exhibited at Hopelessly Devoted, a duo show with artist Kathy Baily at Greatorex Street.

Cherubs are featured heavily in paintings of divine spaces, surrounding and bearing saints and martyrs, but it’s usually the image of Cupid they are associated with, mischievously shooting golden arrows and tugging on the heart strings. In Benton’s work, their image is a meeting of the naughty and the nice: a more realistic symbol than the polarity of virgin or whore, good or bad, light or dark.