Considering Art Podcast – Jerry Buhari, Nigerian mixed media artist

Jerry Buhari is a renowned artist whose works reflect themes of the environment and the political and social woes of his native Nigeria. In this episode, he talks about how human development has affected his place of birth in the rural north of the country, how ethnic tensions and political repression affected him and his art, his obsession with miniature paintings and micro objects within his larger works, the spectre of oil pollution and the presence of the Boko Haram insurgency, why he began using fabric as his “canvas”, his use of unusual materials and collaborators, and about his latest exhibition on the subject of African migration.

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May 25, 2025 1

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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April 22, 2025 1

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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April 14, 2025 2

Considering Art Podcast – Jacqué Price, painter

Californian artist Jacqué Price paints landscapes, animals and figures in what she calls a “representationally expressionistic” way. In this episode, she talks about a near-death experience which changed her life, how she initially gave up art to study neuropsychology and subsequently practise various forms of wellness therapies to contribute to society, how she took art up again after her own metal health suffered, and how she creates an “awkward, elegant aesthetic” in her paintings.

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April 7, 2025 0

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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March 24, 2025 0

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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March 17, 2025 0

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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March 3, 2025 0

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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February 24, 2025 0

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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February 17, 2025 0

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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February 3, 2025 0