34 leading painters from BritainMarylebone Crypt: 3 November 2015 – 2 January 2016 The 2016 CBP group show, curated by Simon Burton and on display in the beautiful St Marylebone Crypt, London, for two months. Ehryn Torrell, Sean Williams, Nicholas Middleton, Alex Hanna, Natalie Dowse, Day Bowman, … Read More
Barbara Howey: What are you working on at the moment? Amanda Ansell: I’m working on a series of paintings that explore the relationship I have with landscape. I have two ways of working which run side by side; first of … Read More
An essay by Terry Greene An essay to accompany the Lines for Agnes exhibition in London. British Painters Julia Ball, Hanna ten Doornkaat, Gemma Cossey, Terry Greene, Sue Kennington, Rebecca Lowe, Jason Miller, Ruth Philo and Marion Piper respond to the … Read More
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Colour: A Kind of Bliss curated by Lucy Cox and Freya Purdue. Artists: Julian Brow, Lucy Cox, Jeff Dellow, David Manley, Andy Parkinson and Freya Purdue. Download the catalogue.
Susie Hamilton in conversation with Robert Priseman Robert Priseman: I’d like to begin by asking you to talk about the core theme which unites your work. You seem to be interested in an underlying concept that we experience the universe … Read More
15 contemporary British painters respond to the PassionBrentwood Cathedral: Ash Wednesday to Good Friday 2015 Curated by Simon Carter. Buy a copy of the book Brentwood Stations of the Cross or download a pdf here. 1. Jesus is condemned to death / David Ainley, 2. … Read More
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Brentwood Stations of The Cross curated by Simon Carter. Project devised by Fr. Martin Boland Dean of Brentwood Cathedral. 1. Jesus is condemned to death / David Ainley, 2. Jesus carries his cross / Freya Purdue, 3. Jesus falls … Read More
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age curated by Robert Priseman (founder of CBP) and essays by Sophie Cummings and Paul O’Kane. Artists: Nathan Eastwood, Natalie Dowse, Nick Middleton, Alex Hanna, David Sullivan, Katherine Russell, … Read More
2nd – 31st March 2015St Marylebone Crypt, 17 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LT Curated by Robert Priseman (founder of CBP) this new exhibition explores how contemporary artists are utilising painting traditions of the past to ask challenging questions about the … Read More
A new Contemporary British Painting group show featuring the work of 42 artists.Monday 8th December 2014 – Thursday 1st January 2015 Painting by Julian Brown Artists: Edwin Aitken, Amanda Ansell, Claudia Boase, Jon Braley, Julian Brown, Simon Burton, Andrew Crane, … Read More
By David Page In this short article David Page looks at and into the picture space, considering the depth behind, in and before the surface of the painting… Introduction What we used to call Modern Art has set itself a … Read More
A major survey show of painters from across the UKIpswich Museums and Galleries: 1st November 2014 – March 2015 Curated by Simon carter this new show features work by over 40 painters from across the UK who are practicing the … Read More
Susan Gunn: Can you give me a brief background to your life and how you became an artist please, Andrew? Andrew Crane: My dad would sit me on his knee and say ‘What shall we draw?’ I would try and … Read More
Katherine Russell: What led you initially to working with these ancient/traditional processes? Susan Gunn: During my foundation year at Norwich University of the Arts I was interested in historic methods and traditional ways of working. I began experimenting, working from … Read More
Marguerite Horner: Right, how do you start a painting Katherine? Katherine Russell: Basically I have a lot of different source material that I gather, so I have loads of photographic material, piles and piles of it and I tend to … Read More
Claudia Böse: Why the title ‘Through each Today’ for this show? You have got interesting titles for your work generally. Why the title ‘Through each Today’? Can you say more? Marguerite Horner: I had this tune going on in my … Read More
Matthew Krishanu: Claudia, I guess the first thing is why ‘idiom two’? What does it mean in relation to the paintings? Claudia Böse: Yes. It is quite a complex word ‘idiom’. I wrote down a nice definition for myself to … Read More
Simon Carter: The paintings on the walls to me – I’m going to take this from sort of like the base point – because I do know quite a bit about your work – but I’ll take from a base … Read More
Judith Tucker considers ‘postmemorial’ affects and the triangular relationship between language, memory and painting in this illustrated article originally published in ‘Interdisciplinary Essays’ (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam NY 20100). Judith Tucker considers ‘postmemorial’ affects and the triangular relationship between language, memory … Read More
Nicholas Middleton: When I was looking at your work earlier today in preparation, it seemed to me that all your work is dedicated to landscape and I wondered if you had any thoughts on what landscape actually means in the … Read More
Matthew Krishanu reflects on three approaches to painting figuratively: from life; from photographs; and from memory / imagination in the essay ‘Painting the Figure – a Contemporary Practice Perspective’ as part of a new publication by the Courtauld for their … Read More