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Welcome to the February 2026 newsletter

CBP Exhibitions

Poster image: Gordon Dalton, Skinny With a Tan (detail), 30.5 x 25.5cm, Acrylic on Canvas

Mind How You Go: Small Paintings from the Edgelands

This exhibition gathers together eight painters whose work has a distinctive take on looking at landscape. From the raw concrete of modern living and the Victorian terrace to the scrappy spaces around cities and towns where human presence is entangled with nature. In the edgelands trees and plants push through post-industrial ruins, follies and temporary dwellings draw attention in passing, unofficial paths of public desire run through scrub and bramble. At the coast the retreating cliff leads down to the beach with its specks of sea-coal, sea smooth brick and out to the high horizon.

Artists: Hannah Brown, Gordon Dalton, Lara Davies, Juliette Losq, Mandy Payne, Narbi Price, Paul Smith and Joanna Whittle.

Lion House Gallery, 13 Sion Road, Twickenham TW1 3DR

Private view: 6 February, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 7 - 22 February 2026

Exhibition Walk Through: Saturday 7 February at 11am

Sunday Salon: Sunday 15 February

Opening times: 11am - 5pm. Admission open and free to all. The Sunday Salon will be a seated and ticketed event due to capacity.

Catalogue:

48 page full colour catalogue with essays from Ruth Livesey and Justin Hopper available for pre-order through Paul Smith's or the gallery website.

Coming soon

We’ll be announcing details and dates for this year’s prize in the very near future!

Solo Exhibitions

Iain Andrews: Gehenna, oil and acrylic on canvas, 225cm x 150cm, 2025

Whispers from the Red room

This is Iain Andrews' first solo exhibition in Italy and includes a number of past works alongside recent paintings made over the last two years. The exhibition takes as it's theme Dante's journey into Hell, as described in the Inferno, and uses it as a starting point from which to draw parallels with the medieval apocalyptic theatre and the artist's work as a therapist with children suffering distress through eating disorders and abuse. There is a catalogue that includes texts by the Italian art critic Cesare Biasini and The British art critic Edward Lucie Smith to accompany the show.

Galleria Gaburro, Via Cerva 25, Milan 20122 Italy 20122

Private view: 25 February, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 25 February - 30 May 2026

Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 10am-1pm and 2pm - 9pm • Admission free

Group Exhibitions

Gordon Dalton: Life is Hard, That's Why No-One Survives, acrylic on canvas, 1700 x 2400, 2019

THE WEIGHT OF BEING: Vulnerability and Resilience in British Art

Featuring CBP members Gordon Dalton, Nathan Eastwood and Narbi Price.

Curated by Angela Thomas, this new exhibition will explore artistic expression and mental health. Through depictions of deeply personal and collective experiences, it examines the powerful ways in which artists capture vulnerability, resilience, and their search for solace.

Including the work of a diverse range of twentieth century and contemporary artists and their varying perspectives, The Weight of Being will showcase how artists have captured the psychological and emotional impact of societal pressures, resilience in the face of adversity, and existential uncertainty.

Through the wide range of artists, mediums, and represented demographics, The Weight of Being is intended to spark meaningful conversations about resilience, identity, and emotional well-being, offering a profound reflection on the toll of existence and the strength found in shared experiences, ultimately fostering hope and deepening understanding.

Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD

Exhibition dates: 24 January – 26 April 2026

Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday - Saturday: 11am – 6:00pm, Wednesday Late: 11am - 9pm, Sunday: 11am - 4:30pm, Closed on Monday • Admission free

Enzo Marra: Fallen, biro on envelope, 12cm x 16cm, 2025

The Gloaming Plane

The Gloaming Plane brings together artists exploring the shifting space between painting and drawing - a zone where images remain in motion and resist fixed definition. "Gloaming," with its evocation of dusk and perceptual in-betweenness, offers a metaphor for this transitional field.

Each artist presents one painting and one drawing, connected not as study and outcome but through an indirect or intuitive relation that opens another register of meaning. Curated by Joshua Uvieghara through Pigment Cascade, an artist-led platform for practice-based enquiry, the exhibition foregrounds material thinking and interpretive openness. The pairing acts as a catalyst, allowing the image to circulate, resist closure, and remain in a state of becoming. Includes work by Enzo Marra.

Terrace Gallery, 4-17 Frederick Terrace, London E8 4EW

Private view date: 5 February, 6pm - 8.30pm

Exhibition dates: 5 - 22 February 2026

Opening times: 6-8:30pm the show will continue to run Sat-Sun 12-6pm or by appointment.

Ruth Calland: Day 1 and Day 5 (#transcending_d), oil on paper on board, 76 x 61 cm, 2025.
Photo: David Harrison.

THIS YEAR’s MODEL ’26 part II

This Year's Model '26 Part II of the galleries annual members' shows.

Artists: GIUSEPPE MARASCO, NICOLE PRICE, JANE WALKER, STEPHEN BUCKERIDGE, MARTINA O’SHEA, RUTH CALLAND, SACHA MEADEN, DAI ROBERTS, TIM WASKETT, LOUISE COLBOURNE, DAY BOWMAN, AMANDA BENSON, EVA RUDLINGER, MARK BELL, MARTIN GAYFORD, ENZO MARRA, EUGENIA CUELLAR, MICHELE MARCOUX, SIOBHAN BEATON, OLIVIA IRVINE, PETER SYLVEIRE, CHRIS COOK, CHRISTOPHER TREE, MIN ANGEL, THE ARTIST'S HUSBAND.

Studio1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, Shoreditich, London E2 7DJ

Private view: 5 February, 6pm - 9 pm

Exhibition dates: 5 February - 1 March 2026

Opening times: Thursday - Sunday 12 - 5pm or by appointment

Day Bowman: Full Flood 6, oil and charcoal on canvas, 25cm x 30cm

Vanner Gallery, Gallery Artists: Act 2

Vanner Gallery Artists' Group Show including work by CBP member Day Bowman.

Vanner Gallery, 45 High Street, Salisbury SP1 2PB

Private view: Thursday 5 February, 6pm - 8 pm

Exhibition dates: 6 February - 7 March 2026

Opening times: Tues - Sat 10 am - 5 pm • Admission free

Disturbances

Embracing interruption and disturbance as a catalyst to shift perspective brings these artists together. Whether through channelling the immensity of digital time, exploring concepts of deception via simulated realities and voyeuristic spaces; or processing the psychological impact of environmental collapse, Disturbances speaks of states of unsettlement, a longing for reconnection and of finding new ways forward.

By reconstructing objects from history to question inherited narratives and examine collective thinking or by probing the archetypes of landscape and painting’s relationship to truth, these artists share an interest in disrupting dominant ideology.

Artists: BENJAMIN DEAKIN, CAROLINE MACDONALD, LUISA MASCARÓ, NINA OGDEN, CARRIE-ANN STEIN, CASSIE VAUGHAN.

Thames Side Studios Gallery, Harrington Way, London SE18 5NR

Private view: Saturday 7 February, 4pm - 6pm

Exhibition dates: 8 - 22 February 2026 • Opening times: 12-5pm

Enzo Marra: So different yet we each fit, oil paint on gallery invite, 12.5 x 12.5cm, 2015

M E M E N T O A M O R I S

Memento Amoris is the fifth annual Alt Valentines exhibition at The Lido Stores. This year’s line‑up has been selected from more than 1,200 submissions by gallery owner‑curator Kristen Healy, who will soon transform Galleries 1 and 2 with works from over 120 artists.

Memento Amoris is a vibrant cross‑section of contemporary art practices from a truly fantastic cadre of artists. Includes work by CBP member Enzo Marra.

The Lido Stores, 2 Ethelbert Terrace, Margate CT9 1RX

Private view: Saturday 7 February, 7pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 7 February - 15 March 2026

Susie Hamilton: Hansel and Gretel 2, acrylic and pastel on paper, 29cm x 21cm, 2022

Together through art

Together Through Art is The Sick Children’s Trust's first art exhibition, proudly sponsored by Henderson Rowe. This special event will be a celebration of creativity, inspiration and togetherness.

Featuring nearly 100 talented artists, the exhibition brings together a diverse array of styles and mediums, each piece united by a shared purpose: to help keep families together when they need it most. Includes work by CBP members Susie Hamilton and Enzo Marra. Curated by Charlotte Mullins.

All artwork will be available for purchase, with a minimum of 50% from each sale donated directly to The Sick Children’s Trust.

Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AS

Exhibition dates: 10 - 15 February 2026

Opening times: 10am to 5pm and Sunday 15 February 2026, 10am to 2pm

Admission free

Barbara Howey: Marsh, oil on board, 51cm x 61cm, 2025

In Proximity

In Proximity brings together recent work by 87 artists based in East Anglia to explore experiences of closeness and includes CBP members, Amanda Ansell and Barbara Howey. It celebrates the ambitious scope of creative practice in the region and has been developed in partnership with the East Anglia Art Fund (EAAF).

The artworks on display delve into real and imagined relationships with the places, objects, people and other life forms that make up our surroundings. Shared concerns with the fragility, power and mystery of the natural world emerge in many of the works, while others focus on the meanings invested in materials and environments over time.

All artworks are for sale. Proceeds go directly to the artists and towards EAAF's continuing support for exhibitions and art education in the region.

Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Castle Hill, Norwich NR1 3JU

Private view: 13 February, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 14 February - 14 June 2026

Opening times: 10am -5pm • Admission: £15.30 adult and £13.05 children

UNVEILED - presenting the Rugby Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art

Linda Ingham’s painting, Easter Self Portrait with Headband will be shown in this unique exhibition, where every artwork from the extensive Rugby Collection is brought together in a rare and powerful moment in the life of the collection.

The exhibition presents over 250 works spanning eight decades of modern and contemporary British art. With works by internationally recognised figures such as Paula Rego, Lucian Freud, L.S. Lowry, Lubaina Himid and Gillian Wearing, as well as quieter, surprising works from less celebrated artists in their formative periods, this exhibition offers an encounter with a carefully curated collection like no other.

Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Little Elborrow Street, Rugby CV21 3BZ

Exhibition dates: 21 February - 6 June 2026

Opening times: Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-4pm, Bank Holidays 10am-4pm, Sundays and Mondays closed.

Podcasts

Jo Hummel in her studio

A Geography of Colour Podcast with painter Jo Hummel talking with Ruth Philo

New episode of the podcast with painter Jo Hummel, from an event organised by Rise Art at Montcalm Royal Collection, London. Jo is a contemporary British painter who lives and works on the Isle of Wight. She trained at the Royal College of Art and has established an international exhibition profile across the UK, Europe, the United States and South Africa.

Her work is rooted in reductionism, using symbols and sacred geometry and engages with ancient spiritual concepts such as Sunya, the Sanskrit term for void and infinity, concerning the balance between emptiness and possibility. Colour assumes a pivotal role in Jo’s work, valued both for its subjective sensory impact and its psychologically transcendent qualities. She works with paper, collaging to create paintings through a careful balance of shape, colour, form, and material.

In Spring 2026 Jo will be Artist in Residence at Thread, Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Senegal and in May 2026 she has a solo exhibition at Benjamin Eck Gallery, Munich.

Website

Link to podcast

Jo Hummel: Aleph, clay pigment and carbon on paper, 70 x 70 cm, 2025

Publications

Stephen Newton's new book, The Hidden Essence of Art, is now available! Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, this book reviews art throughout the ages to find the origin of religion in the relationship between art and ritual. A psychoanalytic perspective identifies the creative process as the prototype for the concept of death and resurrection that underpins religious belief.

This book offers a wide-ranging review of art throughout the ages to isolate the original source of religions and religious practices within the symbiotic relationship between art production and universal ritual procedures. A psychoanalytic perspective identifies the creative process as the common factor and integral structure of not only the formation of the art object, but also ritual enactments and performance and, furthermore, religious doctrine and ceremony. The ritual creative process is unearthed as the unique prototype for the fundamental concept of death and resurrection that underpins religious belief. The book was written with the general reader in mind, but it will also be of interest to psychoanalytic researchers, art historians and art practitioners, as well as to theologians.

YOU CAN BUY THE BOOK HERE

Continuing Solo Exhibitions

Marguerite Horner: Now I am Free, oil on linen, 100 x 100cm, 2025

All of your Demons will Wither Away

"This body of work emerged from a sustained engagement with the Pacific Ocean, particularly along the shores of Del Mar and Malibu, where I often watched the sunrise at Big Rock. In those quiet hours, I became absorbed by the mutable relationship between light and water - a continual dialogue of reflection, rhythm, and dissolution. Through this experience, light revealed itself not merely as a visual phenomenon, but as a vessel for perception, emotion, and presence.

Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AL

Exhibition dates: 16 January - 26 February

Continuing Group Exhibitions

Anglian Abstract

This exhibition celebrates the legacy of modernism in East Anglia through a curated selection of contemporary artists working in abstraction. Artists: Amanda Ansell, Matthew Chambers, Prunella Clough, Peter Collingwood, Liam Hennessy, Clare Iles, Margaret Mellis, Ruth Philo, Marion Piper, John Plowman, Ron Sims, Telfer Stokes, Molly Thompson, Lu Yu.

The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 IUE

Exhibition dates: 7 January - 22 February 2026

Opening times: Wed - Sun 10am - 4pm • Admission free

Simon Carter: A Tree in Suffolk, acrylic on paper, 76cm x 84cm, 2025

Painting: A Changed Environment

The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 IUE

Exhibition dates: 7 January - 22 February 2026

Opening times: Wed - Sun 10am - 4pm • Admission free

Jo Berry, winner of the 2025 open call. The Machine, acrylic on wooden board, 2024.

Irving Open Call 2026

The Irving Open Call Exhibition is an exciting group exhibition of artists working across all media selected by Irving Gallery's curator, Vanessa Lacey. Exhibitors include CBP members Paula MacArthur and Paul Smith.

Irving Gallery, 28 Essex Street, Oxford OX4 3AW

Exhibition dates: 31 January - 28 February 2026

Opening times: Thursday - Saturday 11am-5pm, Sunday 10am-1pm and by appointment • Admission free

Image: Reflections on the Aire – on strike [detail], 1879 by John Atkinson Grimshaw. © Leeds Museums & Galleries, acquired through the Patricia Hurst bequest (Leeds Art Fund)

Don't Let's Ask for the Moon... Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw

John Atkinson Grimshaw's Moonlights from the 1880s brought the Leeds artist success and recognition, even from the crusading modernist American artist James McNeill Whistler.

This new exhibition brings together Leeds Art Gallery’s impressive collection of nocturnal pictures by the celebrated artist, including the latest acquisition Reflections on the Aire - on strike (1879) - likely to be one of the first paintings depicting the consequences of industrial action.

The show aims to shift our perceptions from Atkinson Grimshaw as a painter of place, providing a window of nostalgia onto a Victorian world. Alongside evocative images of nocturnal themes by four contemporary painters - Elizabeth Magill, Selma Makela, Judith Tucker and Joanna Whittle - and neon and photographic works by Roger Palmer, Atkinson Grimshaw can be seen here as a painter of modernity, possessed of a powerful poetry.

Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA

Exhibition dates: 14 November 2025 - 19 April 2026

Opening times: Monday: Closed Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm (note: Upper galleries close from 4pm on Saturdays) Sunday: 11am - 3pm • Admission free

Watercolour Now

Charlotte Verity: CV 4 7, 2025, watercolour monotype. 23.5cm x 21cm. Image Stephen White and Co.

Watercolour Now explores the distinctive qualities of painting in watercolour. Selected by the artist Simon Carter, the exhibition brings together an exciting range of contemporary approaches to watercolour in the Timothy Gurney Gallery at Norwich Castle. The eight artists featured share a fascination with how watercolour can capture diverse and often fleeting relationships with light, colour, landscape and history.

Artists: Simon Carter, Christoper Le Brun, Alf Löhr, Barbara Nicholls, Melanie Russell, Mark Stewart, Charlotte Verity and James Faure Walker.

Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Hill, NR1 3JU

Exhibition dates: 4 October 2025 - 1 March 2026

Opening times: 10am - 5pm daily

Admission: Ticketed entry to Castle (please see website for details)

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter

Joanna Whittle: Hollow tree with stays, oil on panel, 10cm x 10cm, 2020 (Photo Credit, Will Roberts)

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter explores the intricate beauty of small-scale landscapes across three centuries of British art. The exhibition has a particular focus on vignette format illustrations and the changing relationship between text, illustration, and publishing.

Highlights of the exhibition include seven highly detailed watercolours by JMW Turner, whose 250th birthday is being celebrated this year, a dramatic and diminutive drawing by John Martin, and nine intricate watercolours by Beatrix Potter. The exhibition includes over 130 objects, 90 of which are loans from other UK collections.

The exhibition features paintings and prints by artists including JMW Turner, Beatrix Potter, Thomas Bewick, William Blake, Agnes Miller Parker, Eric Ravilious, Joanna Whittle, and more.

Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle NE1 8AG

Exhibition dates: 18 October 2025 - 28 February 2026

Opening times: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4.30pm Closed Sunday and Bank Holidays

Admission charges apply - please see website for details

Molly Thomson: Proposition (10 discardings and one void), acrylic on panel construction, 33cm x 43cm, 2024

John Moores Painting Prize 2025

Showcasing the very latest in painting across the UK, the competition culminates in a major exhibition every two years in Liverpool.

The exhibition includes CBP members Joanna Whittle and Molly Thomson.

Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL

Exhibition dates: 6 September 2025 - 1 March 2026

Opening times: Tues - Sun 10.00 - 5.00 • Admission free

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