Six women painters curated by Barbara Howey.Crypt: 4 July – 29 September 2016 Rebecca Fortnum, Susie Hamilton, Barbara Howey, Eleanor Moreton, Lexi Strauss, Jacqueline Utley 4th August 3.00-5.00 Eliza Gluckman in Conversation with the Artists The Crypt St Marylebone Parish Church Download Press Release.
Curated by Wendy Saunders and Paula MacArthurThe Crypt: 11 January – 26 March 2016 “For the painter, the codes and languages of painting, like the paint itself, are, by their very nature, slippery and amorphous.” This exhibition brings together striking work by ten artists who explore the materiality of paint through the elusive language of…
Essay by Katrina Blannin to accompany the Slippery and Amorphous Exhibition “For the painter, the codes and languages of painting, like the paint itself, are, by their very nature, slippery and amorphous.” If ‘all the world’s a stage’ then the stage is all the world – our world. While you are watching dancers, whether Nureyev,…
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Slippery and Amorphous curated by Wendy Saunders and Paula MacArthur. Artists: Phillip Allen, Simon Carter, Nadine Feinson, Paul Galyer, Paula MacArthur, James Petrucci, Alison Pilkington, Wendy Saunders, Ilona Szalay and Mimei Thompson. Download the catalogue.
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, Susie Hamilton, Lisa Denyer, Pen Dalton, Julie Umerle, Ruth Calland, Wendy Saunders, Claudia Böse, Enzo Marra, Sam Douglas, Marguerite Horner, Sue Kennington, Katherine Russell, Ruth Philo, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor,…
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 all, a series which I have been working on since 2012 which I titled ‘Willow…
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 legacy of the work of Agnes Martin. Download the ISSUU Publication: here. Recently, whilst stumbling around…
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 in a fundamentally existentialist way. Is that true? Susie Hamilton: Yes I think that is…
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. Jesus carries his cross / Freya Purdue, 3. Jesus falls the first time / Linda Ingham, 4. …
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 the first time / Linda Ingham, 4. Jesus meets his mother / Gideon Pain, 5. Simon of…
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, Robert Priseman, Wayne Clough, Barbara Howey, Lee Maelzer and Wendy Saunders. Download the catalogue.
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 social realities of the 21st century. Artists: Nathan Eastwood, Natalie Dowse, Nick Middleton, Alex Hanna,…
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, Pen Dalton, Lisa Denyer, Annabel Dover, Nathan Eastwood, Wendy Elia, Christopher Gee, Chris Gilvan-Cartright, Terry…
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 number of problems. Perhaps ‘problems’ is also a misnomer, because they do not entail absolute…
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 art of painting in Britain today. Ipswich Museums and Galleries – Art School Gallery Buy…
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 think of something really tricky, but was always amazed at the life-like result! This was…
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 recipes and formulas from the Ralph Mayer Artists Handbook,[i] the purported Artists Bible. I had…
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 work thematically. So, at the moment I am looking at ‘Filmic’ and so I have…
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 head and it was a song that we used to sing in kindergarten. I went…
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 out to you and then take it from there. (reading out) For me “idiom…