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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nicola Turner creates extraordinary sculptures using soft organic fibres. In this episode, she talks about her family’s sewing tradition, how she began working in theatre and costume design before taking an MA in Fine Art, where she obtains the material for her sculptures, the different responses from those who view her works, the brief for her recent sculpture The Meddling Fiend in the forecourt of the Royal Academy, how she responds to the environment for site specific installations, and how working is therapeutic for her.
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In this episode, Michael Pemberton talks about his career as an abstract painter in which he has investigated the relationship between our inner and outer selves, how a certain restlessness and thirst for new experiences has seen him live in different parts of the world, how concern for the environment has continued to inspire his works, and why he has turned to featuring the human form in his paintings including in his latest exhibition entitled The Age of Water.
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In this podcast, Aoife van Linden Tol tells why she chose art initially over science, how her interest in explosives began, about some of her explosive artworks, how she became fascinated by cosmology, how her artist residency at the European Space Agency was “life changing”, and how her resultant ESA project Star Storm unfolded.
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