Artist of the Month May 2020: Mandy Payne, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman. CBP: There’s a clear correlation between the subject, imagery and materials you choose to make your paintings. There’s a natural physicality to them as objects. Both times … Read More

Amanda Ansell: A view of my studio and a number of paintings.

This article was fist published by a-n The Artists Information Company to coincide with Matthew Krishanu’s exhibition ‘The Sun Never Sets’ at Huddersfield Art Gallery from 23 June to 15 September 2018 and MAC, Birmingham from 12 January to 10 March 2019. Large … Read More

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Joanna Whittle: Home studio working on tree sketch from the Welbeck Estate within Sherwood Forest.

Judith Tucker Judith Tucker’s work explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and geography; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and writing. The paintings here are excerpts from two recent series.The first series of paintings: Night Fitties explore … Read More

Jeff Dellow In painting I have an approach to open-ended composition with a view to integrating various elements into a pictorial field of development. This gradually allows the identity of the work to emerge. It is itself but relationships may … Read More

Nicholas Middleton 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 my approaches as a maker of images, through painting and its … Read More

Sikelela Owen Sikelela Owen was born in 1984, in London where she lives and works. Owens work is made up predominately of loose figure paintings, drawings, and prints of friends, family, and people of interest. She holds a PG Diploma … Read More

Barbara Peirson The first thing I do when I wake up is squeeze some paint onto a palette so that I’m ready to begin painting before there is any time for thoughts to interfere, attempting to make the most of … Read More

Sam Douglas 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 19th and 20th century forebears, he spends a large amount of his … Read More

Susan Gunn “In Gunn’s paintings there is a subtle tension between the golden section formalism of their geometry and the unruliness of the free-form cracking. They each balance control and abandon, deliberation and chance. This is not the frivolous feminine … Read More

Claudia Böse Claudia is drawn to regions which are borderlands, geographically and psychologically and have been rendered throughout history by artists.  Her work is process driven and deeply shaped by its relationship to daily life, a passion for history and … Read More

Nathan Eastwood Painted on primed gesso board, Eastwood’s paintings have their origin in snapshot photographs taken of his environment both, domestically and out and about that started in started in 2011 with a small painting of his staircase ‘Nook’ at … Read More

Marco Cali My paintings focus on figurative subjects influenced by renaissance and surreal traditions.  I am interested in the suggestive narrative and compositional subjects that permeate the history of painting and work to create pieces that are contemporary.Pictorial bodies are … Read More

Joe Packer Joe Packer’s recent paintings could be described as invented landscapes with a psychological element. These paintings try to evoke memories of places, but at the same time, they have evolved through making processes that are not preplanned or … Read More

David Sullivan The works I engage with in the studio are framed by the political traditions of Realism and the problem is always the same – to discover the complex set of conditions, the emergent phenomena that make for successful … Read More

James Quin These paintings address what might be considered a reasonably straightforward question: what, if anything, can be achieved in painting from what is often perceived to be a most unpromising strategy for the visual artist – that of repetition? … Read More

Geraint Evans 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 employ a stylized pictorial language to explore the idea that landscape is largely … Read More

Kirsty O’Leary Leeson My practice explores both the physical and psychological geography of existence which I feel is complimented by my use of pencil on gesso where the subject matter of each drawing records the unfolding of an event. As … Read More