Considering Art Podcast – Sophie Duez, surrealist portrait artist

Sophie Duez is a multidisciplinary emerging artist with a particular love for graphite. In this episode, she talks about why she felt an outsider as a child, how having double vision has affected her art, why she chose to study Illustration for which she gained a first-class honours degree, the unconventional techniques she has learnt, details of some of her drawings and how she is developing as an artist.

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Considering Art Podcast – Paige Perkins, painter

American artist Paige Perkins, now based in England, draws on mythology, fairy tales and symbols to create paintings in which hybrid creatures and ambivalent faces abound. In this episode, she talks about how she chose painting over ballet, how art school in London loosened her style, how regular Jungian analysis has influenced her work, how she aims to visualise her subconscious through her process, how the state of the natural environment concerns her, and about those artists who influence her.

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Considering Art Podcast – Bryana Bibbs, weaver

Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based artist who tells life stories through weaving. Here, she talks about how she turned to weaving after initially studying painting, how her early works were made to process the trauma of domestic abuse, how she established the We Were Never Alone workshop project to help other abuse victims, the fibres she uses, how environmental sustainability has been a theme of a series of works, the Journal series in which she weaves a visual diary, and about her close relationship with her late grandparents that spawned her current exhibition.

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Considering Art Podcast – Melita Denaro, painter

Melita Denaro paints landscapes from her home on the Isle of Doagh in the Irish county of Donegal. In this episode, she talks about childhood memories, studying ceramics, working as an art teacher in a tough north London school, charming her way into the Royal Academy Schools, making a series on the Crucifixion based on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, how she was persuaded to take up landscape painting en plain air, how light is the most important aspect of her works and how she copes with Multiple Sclerosis.

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Considering Art Podcast – Yeside Linney, painter

Yeside Linney only took up art professionally after retiring from a career as an English teacher. Yet her landscapes, portraits and abstract works have brought her early success in terms of prizes and exhibitions. In this episode, she talks about life in English boarding schools to which she was sent from her birthplace in Nigeria, how she “decolonises” her past through the themes of her artwork, how she focuses on the feminine side of Yoruba culture, how her English upbringing and Nigerian heritage gives her an “enduring vulnerability”, how her work has a brooding element and is mood-driven, and why she made a series entitled Scarification.

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Considering Art Podcast – Daniel Shadbolt, painter

Daniel Shadbolt paints portraits, landscapes and still life using cleverly contrasting soft colours and shadow. In this episode, he talks about his experience at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal Drawing School, examples of inspiring advice he’s been given by both tutors and other artists, the influence of Impressionism and post-Impressionism on his oil painting, how his style has become more abstracted, how he handles colour, how he draws the viewer into his landscapes and still life work, and about some of his regular sitters.

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Considering Art Podcast – Ya La’Ford, multi-media artist

Ya La’Ford is an American of Jamaican heritage who makes paintings, murals, sculpture and installations designed to bring communities together. In this podcast she talks about her early engagement with art, the influence of Jamaica on her art and life, taking a law degree before an art one, the influence of abstract expressionism on her geometric designs, the importance of bridging communities and examples of her site-specific installations.

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Considering Art Podcast – Paul Huxley RA, abstract artist

Veteran abstract artist Paul Huxley has had a long and distinguished career both as an artist and an educator at some of Britain’s most prestigious art institutions. In this episode, he talks about studying at junior art school, his attraction to abstract painting, getting a career boost at The New Generation exhibition in 1964, befriending legendary abstract expressionist figures while in New York, the influence of other artists and of theatre on his works, his experience of teaching art and the challenges he loves about determining the shapes, size, colour, balance and relationships within the geometric and serpentine features that characterise his paintings.

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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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