Tag: Art

Considering Art Podcast – Fiona Campbell, sculptor

Fiona Campbell creates sculptures and installations that she reappropriates from found and discarded materials. In this episode, she talks about how her concern for the environment is at the heart of her practice, the types of materials she looks for, how she interprets environmental issues in a visual way, her upbringing in Kenya, the mixture of shock and allure that she seeks to achieve in many of her works and the influence of her home county of Somerset on her oeuvre.

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Considering Art Podcast – Rosanne Guille, painter

Rosanne Guille is an artist and activist who grew up on the tiny Channel Island of Sark. In this episode, she talks about the idyllic childhood she had there, how the scenery of Sark was inspiring as a plein air painter of land and seascapes, how she became involved in a campaign to halt the over-development of the island by the billionaire Barclay Brothers, how moving to the nearby island of Guernsey saw the development of her artistic practice, and how she has responded artistically to the 80th anniversary of the Channel Islands’ liberation from the Nazis at the end of World War II.

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Considering Art Podcast – Andrew Gifford, painter

Andrew Gifford’s paintings of both nature and cityscapes are concerned with the shifting effects of light and atmosphere. In this episode, he talks about painting wildlife from an early age, how particular episodes in his life forged his individual identity, the influence of an art teacher, why he painted cityscapes and the pleasant interactions with the public it entailed, how art has enriched everything he looks at, how his visual language has developed, the importance of shadow in his works, his recent trip to Costa Rica and his experience of the effects of climate change and loss of diversity.

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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 – 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 – Nina Gonzalez-Park, multi-disciplinary artist

In this episode, Nina talks about the many countries in which she grew up, how she opted for a career in science but then decided to take an MA in Art and Science at London’s Central St Martin’s, how her sculptures often have a scientific basis, how her kitesurfing hobby spawned an artwork, her attraction to steel pipes as a sculptural material, how food has become an artistic focus and how she is co-leading an experimental project involving artists from CSM and scientists from Oxford University aimed at pushing the boundaries between art and science.

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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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