Considering Art Podcast – Martha Hussey, textile artist

London-based Martha Hussey has built a reputation as an innovative artist using fibre, yarn and embroidery threads. In this episode, she talks about creativity in her family, how she opted for textiles after taking a degree in Fine Art, how working as a model in the fashion industry introduced her to new stitching techniques which she has developed in her art, how personal therapy led her to taking a course in art therapy for children, and about examples of her work including portraits, wall hangings and soft set designs for animated films.

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Considering Art Podcast – Lorna May Wadsworth, painter

In this episode, acclaimed portrait painter Lorna May Wadsworth talks about how she began painting celebrities as a teenager, how her first London solo exhibition subverted the traditional male gaze, the experience of painting Baroness Thatcher over five sittings, how she depicted Christ as a black man to which someone took exception, the imaginative materials she has sometimes used in place of canvas, how she painted a relative of someone executed during the French Revolution, and why working quickly brings out the best in her.

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Considering Art Podcast – Joe Fig, painter

American artist Joe Fig talks about his Contemplation series in which he paints pictures of people in art galleries and museums looking at paintings, most recently last year’s Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam. He discusses the concept, his process and his fascination with body language. He also talks about the miniature sculptures he makes of artists in their studios, both historical and current, and how he constructs their implements in miniature and in extraordinary detail.

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Considering Art Podcast – Tom Waugh, sculptor

In this episode, sculptor Tom Waugh talks about how he got the idea for sculpting in stone everyday objects such as crumpled cardboard boxes, takeaway coffee lids, jerry cans and wheelie bins, how these serve as both amusing but also carry an environmental message, the techniques he uses to create the hyperreal effect, how some are offended by his works and how he chooses the type of stone to suit the subject.

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Considering Art Podcast – Dola Posh, photographer

Dola Posh is a young prize-winning photographer from Nigeria, now resident in England. In this episode, she talks about the difficulties adapting to life in the UK, how lockdown inspired her to document her pregnancy and ensuing motherhood through photography, how she experienced postpartum depression, how winning the Leica Women Foto Project Award in 2024 validated her photographic practice, how she has become involved in helping others suffering from post-natal depression, and what she most likes about being a photographer.

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Considering Art Podcast – Jim Murray, artist, actor, angler, activist

Jim Murray is an actor well known for Masters of the Air, Primeval and playing Prince Andrew in The Crown. In this episode, he talks about how his love for art and action painting was ignited as a way to process his grief following the death of his young daughter 16 years ago, how his first acclaimed solo exhibition was inspired by John Constable, why he called it In Flow, how he has combined his other passion of angling with art in an unusual way in a new exhibition, and what art gives him that acting can’t.

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Considering Art Podcast – Lucinda Dilworth, digital artist

In this episode, Lucinda talks about her family’s artistic inclinations, how she became an elite skier, how she used her business studies to aid her career as an artist, how she uses projection mapping, animation and AI in her creative process, the influence of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 on her works’ themes and why she believes digital art is entering a new era.

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Considering Art Podcast – Coral Woodbury, painter

Shocked by the complete omission of all women artists from the main referential book on art history, Janson’s History of Art, American painter Coral Woodbury decided to right this wrong. In this episode, she talks about ripping out the book’s pages and painting portraits in black ink of women artists upon them, how she uses palimpsest as a metaphor, how she has accumulated knowledge and experience on numerous overseas residencies, examples of a few of the extraordinary women that Janson did not include, and how she also paints, in oils and in colour, women in other series of works.

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Considering Art Podcast – John Monks, painter

John Monks has been described as one of Britain’s finest figurative painters whose works can be found in many prestigious collections such as the Metropolitan in New York and the V and A in London. In this episode, he talks about the history behind his two studios, why he’s fascinated with dilapidated interior rooms, how he “inhabits” his paintings, how he sees each painting as creating a series of problems that have to be resolved, and the process by which he manages to create atmosphere in his works suggesting the passage of time.

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Considering Art Podcast – Basil King, painter and poet

89 year-old Basil King has known and worked with some of the greatest names in American art. In this episode, he talks about his life in the east end of London before his family emigrated to the US when he was 11, enrolling at the legendary Black Mountain College as a teenager, meeting Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Robert Creeley, working with Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman in New York City, how his writing poetry accelerated after his first trip back to the UK, his painting themes and his heroes from art history.

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