Artist of the Month September 2023: Lesley Bunch, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Lesley Bunch won the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2022. Lesley talks about her enigmatic ‘Shadow Sculpture’ painting series which are based on the creation of shadows … Read More
Artist of the Month August 2023: Andrew Litten interviewed by Lucy Cox. Andrew examines humanistic themes such as social alienation, love, sensuality, fear, anger, loss, ageing, addiction, paranoia and other identity disturbance. His gestural figurative paintings express a strong interest in the … Read More
Artist of the Month July 2023: Paul Newman, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. For this month’s artist of the month article something of a different approach. Through a set of circumstances and a conceptual link to the performance aspects of … Read More
Artist of the Month May 2023: Enzo Marra, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Enzo Marra’s creative practice is concerned with the direct exploration and pictorial analysis of the disparate concepts that enter his head. CBP: Initial words in response to … Read More
Artist of the Month April 2023: Ruth Philo, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Ruth’s paintings explore abstraction, through colour, light and surface, often emerging from encounters with place and walking. Her work combines elements of internal and external worlds to … Read More
Artist of the Month March 2023: Rachel Lancaster, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Rachel Lancaster’s practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. Photographic ‘stills’ from found moving imagery, alongside an archive … Read More
Artist of the Month February 2023: Simon Carter, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. My work is based on the stretch of Essex coast where I live and have my studio. This coast is where the gardened landscape of East Anglia … Read More
Artist of the Month January 2023: Nicholas Middleton, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Fundamental to my practice is the image. In a world of proliferating images, examination of how the image, tethered to reality, is constructed, processed, displayed, has underpinned … Read More
Artist of the Month December 2022: Suzanne Holtom, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. ‘There is an overriding interest in the creative tension between content and structure in my work. I do think in terms of narratives and themes to each … Read More
Artist of the Month November 2022: Casper White, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Casper’s work centres on the history and intimacy of portraiture, where fleeting and unexpected moments become a place for reflection. Recently Casper’s work has focused more directly … Read More
Artist of the Month October 2022: Stephen Snoddy, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. “Snoddy wants viewers to look at the relationships between his works, and how he carries lines and formats from one picture over to another. He sometimes regards … Read More
Artist of the Month September 2022: Susan Absolon, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. The motifs in Susan Absolon’s paintings are hard to pin down. They avoid declaring their origin or context, and sit somewhere on the path between the figurative … Read More
Artist of the Month August 2022: Paula MacArthur, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. The current focus of Paula MacArthur’s work is crystals and jewels, these are explorations of colour and light, a contemporary response to Dutch 17th century Pronkstilleven painting … Read More
Artist of the Month May 2022: Judith Tucker, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Judith Tucker’s work explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and geography; Night Fitties explore the play of light and dark and the uncanny transformations of … Read More
Artist of the Month April 2022: Deb Covell, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Deb Covell’s practice is concerned with bringing a form into being by exploring the material and sculptural potential of paint. She has omitted a traditional fixed support … Read More
Artist of the Month March 2022: Alex Hanna, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. ‘I have been working on ideas based around the ‘ambiguous’ and materiality. This possibly explains the choice of subject and the reductive colour system. I have been … Read More
Artist of the Month February 2022: Joanna Whittle, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. ‘The subjects of Whittle’s paintings often take the form of ruins and re-evaluate how these operate in contemporary settings. They explore romantic motifs whilst depicting modern structures … Read More
Artist of the Month January 2022: Day Bowman, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. CBP begins 2022 talking with Day Bowman about her painting practice and about her series ‘Studies for Seaside Citadels’. Day Bowman say’s: ‘Growing up in a holiday … Read More
Artist of the Month December 2021: Sam Douglas, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Sam Douglas works in a tradition of British visionary landscape painters of the past such as Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, and Paul Nash. Like many of his … Read More
Artist of the Month November 2021: Ruth Calland, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. This month CBP talks with Ruth Calland on her curated group show Darkness at Noon on at the APT gallery in London and about her practice in … Read More
Artist of the Month October 2021: Molly Thomson, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Molly Thomson’s work concerns the performance of the painting as an object, using the conventional painting panel as a springboard for action and a vehicle for thought. … Read More