Considering Art Podcast

For the past 20 years, Sarah Adams has captured in oil the rugged features of the north coast of Cornwall where she lives. In this episode, she talks about the artistic journey she has made towards b…

Natalia Millman was born in Ukraine and came to England in her twenties. Her father’s dementia and subsequent death had a profound effect on her both personally and artistically. In this episode she …

Britt Boutros-Ghali was born in Norway but for the past five decades has lived in Egypt having married into one of the country’s foremost families. Her emotional abstracts and figurative expressionis…

Hannah Gibson has held a passion for glass since childhood and is now a multi-award winning glass artist. In this episode, she talks about how her upbringing inspired her love for the material and fo…

London-based, New Zealand-born ceramicist Raewyn Harrison has made the River Thames the focus of her practice. In this episode, she talks about the hobby of mud larking in which people discover all m…

Deborah Grice is a prize-winning British painter of atmospheric landscapes with a contemporary twist. In this episode, she talks about how she had ambitions to become a war artist, how moving from Gl…

Brian Sayers paints remarkable still life paintings that are often cluttered with all manner of everyday objects and implements. In this episode, he talks about how he got into The Slade art school a…

Jonathan O’Dea creates abstract sculptures out of waste material from construction sites. In so doing, he makes art in a sustainable way. In this episode, he talks about his Irish background in which…

Su Richardson became a pioneer of feminist art in the 1970s through her crocheted and other works which focused on domesticity and feminine issues such as motherhood, PMS, menopause and so on. In thi…

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 affe…

Hannah Thomas paints dreamlike, abstract landscapes full of weird biomorphic shapes, hybrid creatures and visceral body parts full of symbols and metaphor. In this episode, she talks about her previo…

Jean-Luc Almond is a prize-winning portrait painter whose images are distorted in order to give them a psychological and emotional depth, representing the polarities of the human condition. In this e…

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 o…

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…

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 part…

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 cha…

Carolyn Tripp makes traditionally-shaped porcelain ceramics but gives them a contemporary twist. In this episode, she tells of how family members first piqued her interest in ceramics, why she gave u…

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…

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 …

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 proc…