The exhibition, due to launch in Swansea from 3 October 2020, was postponed due to lockdown. You can view the paintings in the slideshow above (click on any image to view full-screen versions) and download the catalogue below. Vitalistic Fantasies Artists: Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Julian Brown, Deb Covell, Lucy Cox,…
Written by Robert Fitzmaurice I very nearly missed Threads: Two Generations of Painters through Time. I’m so glad I didn’t. The exhibition took place at OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading Sept 01-07, 2020 and featured 27 works by four painters who share connections to the town and each other. I visited on the last day and was…
Artist of the Month October 2020. This month CBP talks to Matthew Krishanu about his commission for the Hayward Gallery / Southbank Centre; ‘Everyday Heroes’. Matthew is one of a select group of featured artists and poets celebrating the contributions of key and frontline workers during the current pandemic. CBP: Congratulations for your significant contribution…
Vitalistic Fantasies, a Contemporary British Painting exhibition that coincides with the 2020 BEEP Painting Biennial. Launched in 2012 the Beep (Biennial Exhibition of Painting) is a contemporary painting prize that brings together artists from all over the world. This year Beep returns with an expanded programme of satellite painting led exhibitions and symposiums around the…
Artist of the Month September 2020: Alison Pilkington, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman. CBP: Viewing your recent paintings and to paraphrase what they look like, the painterly world of Alison Pilkington depicts fidgety cartoonish figures jostling for space in portals within desert landscapes. There’s a humorously troubled psychological tone balanced with perhaps a playful optimism. You…
A CBP virtual open studio Curated by Deb Covell, Paula MacArthur and Judith Tucker, built by Isaac Ashby David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Julian Brown, Simon Carter, Deb Covell, Lucy Cox, Gordon Dalton, Pen Dalton, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Nathan Eastwood, Susie Hamilton, Suzanne Holtom, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Linda…
Artist of the Month August 2020: David Lock, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman. CBP: Collage is key to the construction and narrative of your painting. Your collages and paintings of men have kept the evidence of this construction depicting sliced and patchwork figures. There is a vulnerability and tenderness, even pathos, for example with an ongoing…
IntroductionJoanna Whittle’s ‘Between Islands’ is an Arts Council (Developing Creative Practice) funded project working with the Harley Gallery and Portland Collection on the Welbeck Estate. The project and subsequent exhibition explore the relationship between ‘creating worlds’ and ‘creating collections’ and the role curation and display of collections plays in developing narratives – real or imagined….
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Susie Hamilton.
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Joanna Whittle.
David Manley: Paintings Standing Up: A number of paintings viewed in the round from the time of lockdown.
Artist of the Month July 2020: Gideon Pain, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman. CBP: Eclectic. It feels like you’ve built up a repertoire of imagery, motifs and narratives over time, a career. It’s a challenge to condense that into an artist’s statement – which yours does make sense. I look at your work and feel I…
Plashy Places by Day Bowman “This video was kindly made by a friend who realised that my exhibition at Carey Blyth Gallery Oxford in March had to close after 5 days due to Covid-19. These works were in the exhibition entitled Plashy Places which is taken from a line of poetry from W.B. Yeats’ The Man…
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Freya Purdue.
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Ruth Philo.
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Marco Cali.
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Suzanne Holtom.
Artist of the Month June 2020: Pen Dalton, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman. CBP: There is an exquisite poise in your painting, between an immaculate sense of design, meticulous production methods and a looser fluidity of paint and spontaneity. An abstract painter like Tomma Abts can look meticulously designed at first glance and in reproduction, then…
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Natalie Dowse.
Song of the Siren A video showing stages in the making of four paintings from the Song of the Siren series by Natalie Dowse.
Rob Dunt, artist and founder of ArtTop10.com, talks to Phil Illingworth.