Note: these details are provided for information. The Chinese Brush Painters Society is not responsible for the quality or appropriateness of items supplied. Please check that you know all the terms and conditions before committing to an order, and be aware that overseas orders may incur customs duty entering the UK.
Oriental Arts Chinese Gift Shop
Mail order & shop. Louisa is knowledgeable about paper & brushes.
Contact: Louisa Yuen
Email: info@orientalartsbrighton.co.uk
Address: 14 Rock Street, Brighton, BN2 1NF, England.
Phone: 07803893409
Maggie Cross
Mail order
Email: maggiex.email@yahoo.co.uk
Guanghwa Co. Ltd
Mail order & shop
Email: info@guanghwabooks.co.uk
Address: 112 Shaftsbury Ave, London, W1D 5EJ
Phone: 0207 437 3737
InkDifferent Studio
Mail order art materials & book. Also online painting classes.
Jackson’s Art
Mail order. Have some CBP Materials including brushes (natural hair and synthetic) and bamboo pens
Phone: +44 (0)207 254 0077
AJ Ludlow Colours
A shop, gallery and painting studio open to visitors by appointment only. A range of CBP materials, including a synthetic brush.
Phone: 01646 687687
Address: 10 St Patricks Hill, Llanreath, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire SA72 6XQ. Our telephone number is
Heaton Cooper Gallery
A small range of CBP materials including “rice paper” and Wenzhou bark paper rolls.
Oriental World
Art & craft shop in Manchester (16 Nicholas Street ph. 0161 236 2333 ). Also mail order. CBPS Teacher Peta Allingham: They can post orders promptly using Royal Mail. Very good service. They do have an online shop but you can phone between 10am and 6pm seven days of the week.
Inkston
Mail order. Good range of CBP materials.
Oriental World
Mail order. Some CBP materials.
Mail-order Chinese books
- Hanshan Tang Specialist books on Chinese art and culture
- BooksChina some art books & CBP materials
- Purple Culture
Overseas Suppliers
Note that ordering from overseas suppliers may incur import customs charges.
- Oriental Art Supply (USA). We had a report (August 2025) of trouble with an order from OAS. Please check that you know all the terms and conditions before committing to an order.
- Blue Heron Arts (USA)
- Hiromi Paper (Japanese papers, USA)
- Asian Brush Painter (USA)
- Man Luen Choon (Hong Kong)
- complete price list: note that this is correct at 9 May 2024, check current prices before ordering.
- Zhengda Guangming (Taiwan)
- Hmay Paper and Art Supplies (China)
- Pigment (Tokyo)
- CBPS Teacher Desmond Chung says “I’ve recently ordered from this shop in Taiwan. Quite good quality and excellent service. There’ll be shipping fees.” This site is in Chinese, but you can make reasonable sense of it with Google translate.
Chinese Seal Carving to order
- Akemi Lucas (UK)
- Angela Reich (UK) email
- Desmond Chung (Essex & London) email
- Kaili Fu (UK)email kaili
- Reiko Cooke (UK) email reiko
- Contact Louisa Yuen at Oriental Arts(UK), who gets seals carved in China.
- Hmay (China)
- Inkston (China)