Artist of the Month April 2021: Sikelela Owen, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. CBP: Your recent painting evokes a sense of reflection, contemplation, and something quite peaceful. This feels quite rare in the world of contemporary figurative painting that often evokes a degree of tension. This might partly be due to the gaze of your…
Marguerite Horner My practice is concerned with the non-material, a reality we can access through contemplation and painting…Jung asserts that ‘the experience of the Sacred and Holy is a fundamental requirement of the self. To deny it brings spiritual decay; to embrace it illuminates the soul with meaning’.Today the moving image dominates our world and…
Co-sponsored by Insiders/Outsiders and The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) Visual artist Judith Tucker talks about her mother, Berlin-born writer Eva Tucker (1929-2015), author of two vivid memoirs, Berlin Mosaic (2005) and Becoming English (2009), who came to the UK with her mother as a child in 1939. Judith introduces her own work, much of…
An Artist to Artist In-Conversation with Robert Priseman led by the Artist Nathan Eastwood
Artist of the Month March 2021: Gordon Dalton, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Dead Reckoning is the process of calculating your direction by using a previously determined position. It is thought that Dutch sailors threw dead bodies overboard to calculate their future route. This seemed apt for a solo show in my 50th year in…
Artist of the Month February 2021: Natalie Dowse, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Natalie Dowse works from the close examination of the photographic image or extracted film still, derived from the surveillance, documentation and scrutiny of various locations. Carefully selected resource material is either used in isolation, in sequence or spliced together to make fictional…
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 like inspirational platform to forge your own unique identity as a painter and take steps…
Download the catalogue to accompany the exhibition ‘Vitalistic Fantasties’ curated by Paula MacArthur. Artists: Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Julian Brown, Ruth Calland, Deb Covell, Lucy Cox, Gordon Dalton, Pen Dalton, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Geraint Evans, Susan Gunn, Alex Hanna, Suzanne Holtom, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Bryan Lavelle,…
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 from your imagination and influenced from your early memories of Malaysia and Mauritius. Your paintings…
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 ends. Works by 41 painters from Contemporary British Painting bring a visual conversation to ideas…
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 arrest a poet’s attention, and although the object was asked to join philosophy’s dance, things…
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 years ago. They crumble, collapse, get trodden on but mostly seem worth keeping. I’m combining…
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 in pairs where the relationship dynamic bounced between the two. This allowed aspects of theatre…
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 from it. In including my digital paintings in this exhibition, I am situating them in…
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 or literal truth. In much the same way, I am interested not in the ways…
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, and different formal and technological configurations of mixing and applying paint, always aware that painting…
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 these artists that I respond to, the result of sustained development and focus in the…
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 painting has a basis in reality but is built up from many sources containing elements which…
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 the light. Much of my work originates with drawing. It is the genesis of my…
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 of paintings I felt this world emerge as I assembled a small group of porcelain…
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 draw on a wide range of sources from the most obvious classical themes in painting…