BrushStrokes of Being
Brushstrokes of Being: Art is the Cradle of Our Soul teels the stories of art, artists and has conversations with people in the arts.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Adebanji Alade
What does it mean to truly see? To slow down, observe, and let creativity flow through your hands? On this episode of Brushstrokes of Being, I speak with Adebanji Alade, the BBC-featured artist and …
Art as Medicine in the Age of Machines
Art as Medicine in the Age of Machines marks the conclusion of my series The Gaze Reclaimed. After seven episodes honouring women artists who fought to be seen, I turn to our present reality: a time …
The Gaze Reclaimed, Part Seven: Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel was more than Rodin’s lover, more than the “madwoman” silenced in an asylum for thirty years. She was a visionary sculptor who gave marble and bronze a pulse, sensual, intimate, and p…
Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: The Gaze Reclaimed, Part 6
“To paint is to love again.” Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s words define a life devoted to courage, beauty, and creation. Born in 1755, she overcame the barriers of a male-dominated art world, teach…
Part 5-Berthe Morisot
In this episode of The Gaze Reclaimed Part 5: Berthe Morisot, we celebrate the 100th episode of Art Talk. Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) was not just a painter — she was one of the most influential femal…
Edmonia Lewis: Sculpting Against the Gaze
In this episode of Art Talk, part 4 of The Gaze Reclaimed, we explore the extraordinary life and legacy of Edmonia Lewis — the first African-Native American sculptor to gain international recognition…
Elisabetta Sirani: The Forgotten Baroque Prodigy
In Episode 98 of Art Talk, we explore the extraordinary life of Elisabetta Sirani, the forgotten Baroque Prodigy. A 17th-century Baroque artist from Bologna who defied social norms to become one of t…
Artemisia Gentileschi
Welcome back to Art Talk, and Part 2 of The Gaze Reclaimed. In this episode, we delve into the extraordinary life of Artemisia Gentileschi, who transformed the depiction of women in Western art.
From…
Looking Inward
The Gaze Reclaimed – Part 1: Looking Inward
Episode 96 of Art Talk | New Series Premiere
Welcome to The Gaze Reclaimed, a bold new series exploring how women—past and present—are reclaiming the right…
Why Old Masters Matter To Artists Today 3
In episode 95, the last episode in the series of Why Old Masters Matter To Artists Today 3. In this episode I go in learning how to see: Style, Technique and….Secrets, with Rembrandt on my side.
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Why Old Masters Matter to Artists II
Why Old Masters Matter to Artists II: Leonardo da Vinci & the Power of Observation
In Episode 94 of Art Talk, we dive deep into the timeless art of observation—through the eyes of one of history…
Why Old Masters Matter to Artists Today
Episode 93 of Art Talk is the start of a short series where I talk about why old masters matter to artists today. In this episode I briefly discus why they matter, what you can learn from them, why …
The Art of World Building
In Episode 92 of Art Talk, I have a conversation with Elizabeth Amisu about the Art of World Building. Elizabeth is the author of the Sacerdos Series, books that inhibit the worlds she created, with…
What Art Evokes in our Brain
In Episode 91 of Art Talk, I discuss wat art evokes in our brain. Based on Neurological research in the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands, art electrifies the Brain. This of course is goed news for art…
A Conversation With Agnes Gomori
Episode 90 is the last of this year 2024 and I have a conversation with Agnes Gomori about art and spirituality and how we as artists adapt that in our art as well as experience it to create specifi…
A Conversation With Louise Fowler
This is episode 89 of Art Talk, and today I have a conversation with Louise Fowler. Louise is an oil painter based in Cornwall, she is also a musician.
* Website Louise Fowler
* Instagram Lou…
A conversation with Anikó Boda
This is episode 88 of Art Talk. After a long hiatus I am back with a conversation with Anikó Boda. Anikó Boda is a painter of imaginary realism, thinker and storyteller. She initially studied medici…
A Conversation with Shirley-Ann O’Neill
In episode 87 of Art Talk, I had the pleasure of having a conversation with Shirley-Ann O’Neil, director of the VAA (Visual Artists Association)After their book Good Art Doesn’t Sell Itself (which I…
A Conversation With Jessica Agudelo
In episode 86 of Art Talk, I have a conversation with Jessica Agudelo. Jessica is a psychologist specialising in mental health. She has a wealth of experience and is an exceptional trainer (and I kn…
A Conversation with Janet Sternburg
In episode 85 of Art Talk, I have a conversation with Janet Sternburg. She is a photographer and made a book called Looking at Mexico and Mexico Looks Back.Janet Sternburg has written eight successf…