Artist of the Month November 2025: Daniel H Bell, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Daniel H Bell’s paintings are based on the physicality of humans and other animals. The ambiguous figures that appear in them stem from various personal encounters at home and out in nature. Bell works intuitively, embracing accidents, forging juxtapositions through a…
Hideatsu Shiba Hideatsu Shiba was born in Japan, 1973.He graduated from Byam Shaw School Of Art (BA Hons); Goldsmith College (Postgraduate) and Chelsea College OF Art (MA / Painting).He lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions: Laurent Delaye Gallery, London; One In The Other Gallery, London; 43 Inverness Street Gallery, London and The Cut, Halesworth,…
Artist of the Month October 2025: David Manley, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. In this interview David Manley talks about his painting responses to landscape experience. Manley’s practice is plural, hard to categorise and pin down. Supports and media are determined by the perceived needs of each series, from ad hoc provisional assemblages as painting…
Sol Golden Sato Sol Golden Sato is a London-based Malawian contemporary history painter whose work breathes new life into the venerable tradition of history painting. Sato’s work bridges contemporary history painting and social commentary. A long-term migrant shaped by the final years of apartheid and sweeping political changes across southern Africa. Historically, this genre drew…
Liz Elton ‘Elton asks us to do the work of staying with the grief as something non-linear and inherently connected to the processes and ecological cycles of life. Compost-like, her metamorphic practice generously opens up a space between letting go and holding on, a site for conversations and continuations.’ Anna Souter, 2025 Liz Elton’s practice…
Thames-side Studios Gallery presents & Still Different Worlds a group exhibition featuring seven artistsworking in the UK today.Miranda Boulton, Martyn Cross, Sam Douglas, Michael Gurhy, Kirsty Harris, Paula MacArthur, Donna McLean “I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper…there is goodness…but another force, a wild pain…
Alison Critchlow I have two bodies of work in process at the moment, unfolding simultaneously and at different timescales. The Swarm series began in 2023 and grew out of a research project focused on the work of Romanian American artist Hedda Sterne. It uses an imagined swarm as a motif to explore collective impulses that…
Ellen Ranson The physically powerful, expressive and emotionally charged works allow the artist’s emotions to transfer from body to canvas. A broad research base that includes feminist theory, mythology, memory, and landscape navigates the hallmarks of patriarchal art histories. Ranson subverts and intertwines these with references to feminine mythologies, everyday experience, and the often erased…
Joshua Uvieghara I make paintings driven by processes of assemblage and mark making. This begins with a question of reconciliation: How might the ineffable be expressed through the materiality of painting? While this question resists a fixed answer, it opens a space where painting becomes a process of discovery—a testing ground for thresholds between material,…
Sophia Rosenthal “Born in South Korea and raised in the Philippines before settling in the UK, I use paint as a language and vehicle for exploring memory and its complexities in relation to ideas around belonging, my identity and lived experience. Inspired by Roland Barthes’ texts Camera Lucida and the theory of the punctum, my…
Paul Smith Paul Smith is a London based artist from Sunderland. His work documents his interest in the lost and the found, what is passing out of memory and what is synthesized as trace in the landscape. Exploring lost places and capturing the essence of a moment of abandonment has been part of his practice…
Emma Tod Essay by Rebecca Geldard 2025 Emma Tod’s paintings might be described as an antidote to the digital experience, giving us back a sense of what we scroll past: time. Yet her work also embraces its aesthetic, each painterly swatch a paean to high saturation and luminous intensity. Meticulously constructed from layer upon layer…
Ruth Calland, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. For this month’s interview CBP member Ruth Calland talks about her solo exhibition, ‘This Is All The Treasure We Can Have and Hold’. The exhibition explores notions of transforming and non-binary beings within evocative paintings of figures merging with landscapes. They include ranging references from early 20th…
The Judith Tucker Memorial Prize 2024 Catalogue Published in August 2025, the catalogue for The Judith Tucker Memorial Prize 2024 features the shortlisted artists Ruth Bateman, Alison Critchlow, Davina Jackson, and Polly Townsend, and the winning artists Harriet Mena Hill and Sophia Rosenthal. The introduction is by Dr Narbi Price, Chair of Contemporary British Painting,…
Phil Illingworth selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. This month’s interview discusses Phil Illingworth’s solo exhibition Juggernaut: ‘Bringing together works spanning more than fifteen years alongside new, never-before-seen work, Juggernaut presents a potent and timely exhibition by Phil Illingworth. Featuring drawing, drawing and painting in the expanded field, sculpture, and film, this body of work…
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Artist of the Month June 2025: Lisa Ivory, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Lisa Ivory’s landscapes are commonly occupied by a Wildman, who occasionally interacts with a female human figure. There is a Rake’s Progress of sorts, with a skeletal Death figure interrupting the discourse between these characters. The Beast attempts sympathetic magic by scrawling…
Artist of the Month April 2025: Geraint Evans, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Geraint Evans is interested in the ways in which we perceive, encounter and experience the natural world and read it as landscape. His figurative paintings and drawings explore the notion that landscape is largely a social and cultural construct, responding to the…
The Contemporary British Painting Prize goes biennial! The Contemporary British Painting Prize has grown beyond recognition over the years. We started with 300 submissions in 2016, and in 2024 we had an unbelievable 1200+ entries. The first exhibition was just 12 paintings in a small town hall gallery in London, the last exhibition of 51…
Neverends: Judith Tucker’s Fitties – exhibition and talk event transcriptions Neverends: Judith Tucker’s Fitties In June-July 2024 the library in Cleethorpes hosted an exhibition of a small selection of Judith Tucker’s Fitties paintings. During the exhibition some of Judith’s friends and colleagues came together to talk about Judith and her work.
Artist of the Month March 2025: Barbara Howey, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. “My current body of work is paintings based on plants. Part of my process is photographing the species of plants seen on my daily walks, not rare but local, some native and some finding a space to grow where seeds have blown…