Artist of the Month January 2021: Iain Andrews, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Contemporary British Painting: Your paintings are steeped in painting history references from Renaissance – Hieronymus Bosch, Romanticism and the alien landscapes of surrealism; Max Ernst. It feels … Read More
Artist of the Month December 2020: Cara Nahaul, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Contemporary British Painting: The title of your recent solo exhibition ‘Impossible Garden’ at Taymour Grahne encapsulates your practice depicting psychologically charged interior and exterior spaces conjured … Read More
We are delighted to announce that Vitalistic Fantasies is coming to The Cello Factory, London. An expanded version of the exhibition originally planned for 2020 BEEP Painting Biennial in Swansea will open on 2 December in London just as lockdown … Read More
Iain Andrews • G.L. Brierley • Pen Dalton • Tim Dodds • Sam Douglas • Alex Hanna • Alison Pilkington • Joanna Whittle • Frances Woodley Essay by Dr. Frances Woodley, author and curator ‘. . . although objects typically … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsTim Dodds Your prompts with regard to model making are useful as I realize it has changed over the last few years, despite the fact I’ve kept a lot of the models I started making eight … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsG.L. Brierley The work has moved on from painting the thing as a possible object one could own which was rooted in the traditional still life genre. I then started to think about the objects being … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsFrances Woodley I’m not sure whether to call these digital works ‘paintings’, though I’d like to. Their roots go back to my research into contemporary painting’s conversations with the still life tradition, but they also depart … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsIain Andrews For me, working as an art psychotherapist with teenagers, much of the working process involves a certain amount of faith in the unconscious and its ability to communicate in ways that bypass spoken language … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsPen Dalton I’ve never given much thought to ‘content’, considering myself to be concerned with – as you indicate – the painting itself as the primary object. My intention is usually to concentrate on the mediums, … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsSam Douglas It is interesting how you have selected some of my favourite CBP artists and also G.L. Brierley’s whose work I have been familiar with for some time. It is primarily the painting processes of … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsJoanna Whittle My paintings focus on constructing worlds using temporary and moveable structures such as tents, shelters and fairground facades. They are painted to a high level of detail in order to authenticate these constructed worlds. Each … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsAlison Pilkington A Little HollowWith my hands cuppingI make a little hollow.A hollow to nest in,a hollow for dreams,a hollow to dance in,and lost things.In this hollow I holdmy hopes and dreams.Turning in my fingers,slipping through … Read More
Plausible Objects / Difficult ThingsAlex Hanna Looking at the images you selected for this exhibition I can understand why you wrote about ‘painting’s ability to create worlds and the objects that populate them within its frame’. With the ‘Infanta’ series … Read More
Freya Purdue Contemporary British Painting artist of the month November 2020 My paintings inhabit the border between abstraction and figuration and have their basis in exploration through seeing, experience and research around the ideas I am currently working with. I … Read More
The exhibition, due to launch in Swansea from 3 October 2020, was postponed due to lockdown. You can view the paintings in the slideshow above (click on any image to view full-screen versions) and download the catalogue below. Vitalistic Fantasies … Read More
Written by Robert Fitzmaurice I very nearly missed Threads: Two Generations of Painters through Time. I’m so glad I didn’t. The exhibition took place at OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading Sept 01-07, 2020 and featured 27 works by four painters who share … Read More
Artist of the Month October 2020. This month CBP talks to Matthew Krishanu about his commission for the Hayward Gallery / Southbank Centre; ‘Everyday Heroes’. Matthew is one of a select group of featured artists and poets celebrating the contributions … Read More
Vitalistic Fantasies, a Contemporary British Painting exhibition that coincides with the 2020 BEEP Painting Biennial. Launched in 2012 the Beep (Biennial Exhibition of Painting) is a contemporary painting prize that brings together artists from all over the world. This year … Read More
Artist of the Month September 2020: Alison Pilkington, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman. CBP: Viewing your recent paintings and to paraphrase what they look like, the painterly world of Alison Pilkington depicts fidgety cartoonish figures jostling for space in portals within … Read More
A CBP virtual open studio Curated by Deb Covell, Paula MacArthur and Judith Tucker, built by Isaac Ashby David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Julian Brown, Simon Carter, Deb Covell, Lucy Cox, Gordon Dalton, Pen Dalton, … Read More
Fiona Eastwood There is an engagement with proximity in the work. Proximity in the addressing of space within the paintings and the remove of the painting from the photographic resource. This remove provides the ‘small space of slippage …where our … Read More