Considering Art Podcast

In this episode, Romany talks about his upbringing during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, how he gave up practising as a lawyer to become an artist, how the death of a friend inspired his AIDS Memo…

In this episode, Jersey-based fine art photographer Connor Daly talks about how photography became his passion, his struggles at art school, the adventurous spirit he inherited from his mother, how h…

In this episode, Kate talks about her passion for colour and what colour provides, how she discovered the Araash fresco practice during a trip to India as a teenager and how she subsequently went bac…

In this episode, British sculptor Rebecca Stevenson talks about her love of wax as a material, how studying anatomical dissection influenced her work, how she has updated Baroque Vanitas paintings fo…

In this episode, James Mortimer talks about the reasons behind his works that depict strange, primeval and dramatic landscapes whose inhabitants have cast aside moral constraints and where humans and…

One of Britain’s leading stone sculptors, Paul Vanstone talks about his fascination with stone and how he loves the openness and risk-taking involved in carving it, the feeling of vibrancy that it gi…

In this episode, Kristian Evju talks about his background in a remote part of Norway, the influence of psychology on his art, his time at Chelsea College of Art in London, how historical archive phot…

In this episode, HSWD talks about her aristocratic heritage, her philandering gambling father with whom she lived in Soho in the 1970s, how she encountered artists such as Francis Bacon and various o…

In this episode, Joanne talks about how being brought up as a working class girl in the rural north of England has given her a unique perspective for delving beneath the surface of the rural idyll to…

In this episode, Ant talks about not being a stereotypical street artist, his experience of living in South Africa during the end of apartheid, studying graphic design and animation there, how he has…

In this episode, the Austrian-born UK-based potter talks about her family background in ceramics, the influence of her compatriot Lucie Rie on her works, the importance of shape, colour and integrity…

In this episode, photographer Oli Kellett talks about how he discovered Paradise early in his career, how the idea emerged for his award-winning series Cross Road Blues, the concept behind it and how…

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 thirs…

In this episode, Andrew Gow talks about his career’s early birthing pains, his technique for painting portraits that he regards as art’s greatest challenge and which has brought him widespread acclai…

In this episode, acclaimed painter Nick Archer talks about how his artistic vision changed while at the Royal Academy Schools in London, how he turned to landscapes after leaving London for the count…

In this episode, the internationally renowned Indian artist Suhasini Kejriwal talks about her work The Garden of Un-earthly Delights exhibited at Frieze Sculpture in London, why she studied art abroa…

Antoni Malinowski has established an international reputation for his works that comprise colour, movement and light and are often applied directly on to architectural spaces. Here he talks about his…

In this episode, the internationally renowned photographer talks about problems caused by his dyslexia, how he chose to study photography over fine art, how he established himself as a professional l…

In this episode, Dangerosa, aka Lisa Buchanan, talks about why she chose her artistic name, how niche film directors and musicians have influenced her oeuvre as much as other artists, the importance …

In this episode, James Hart Dyke talks about how landscape painting caught his imagination from an early age, how he studied architecture before going to art school, how he made his name painting cou…