Talking with Painters

See my video of Guido Maestri painting in the field on the TWP YouTube channel

A riverbank in the Australian bush would be the perfect plein air location for many artists. A rushing stream, long tree…

‘National treasure’, ‘legend,’ ‘inspiration’. These were just some of the reactions from my Instagram followers when I posted that I would be interviewing Guy Warren.

Guy is about to turn 100 years o…

The name Namatjira is a famous one. Vincent Namatjira’s great-grandfather, Albert Namatjira, was one of Australia’s great painters, uniquely depicting Australia’s desert landscapes in vibrant waterco…

Tony Costa won the Archibald prize in 2019 with his stunning painting of contemporary artist Lindy Lee. I caught up with him a few weeks later in his studio in Sydney and our podcast conversation fro…

In 2019 I travelled 4 hours west of Sydney, past the Blue Mountains, driving through winding bush roads until I arrived at Hill End, the historic goldmining village which is now also known for its in…

My recent conversation with leading artist Euan Macleod is the first in a summer series of extended audio recordings from videos I’ve taken of my podcast guests.

As is the way with videos, a lot of …

Antonia Mrljak’s art exudes a dynamic force. It mirrors her personality – one of energy, vibrancy and a sure sense of direction. She is one of Australia’s most exciting emerging abstract artists.

Bu…

Joshua Yeldham’s imagery is steeped in nature. His large works range from portraying the landscape with its stunning mystical trees, to figures with a tribal aesthetic, to his iconic owls which he ha…

An edited version of this episode is also a video which you can see here:

When I started this podcast in July 2016 with no knowledge of audio recording – let alone how to start a podcast – I never i…

You can also watch this episode as a video here. To hear the episode as an audio podcast click on ‘play’ above.

Leading artist Wendy Sharpe talks with me in her Sydney studio about her fabulous show …

In the late 19th century, impressionism swept through the art world. In Australia, a group of young artists embraced the new movement – they would meet in artist’s camps and paint en plein air. Among…

After months of disruption and pessimism wreaked by the global pandemic, seeing Jude Rae’s exhibition ‘424-428’ at The Commercial in Sydney was as uplifting as the paintings themselves.

The towerin…

Reading Scott Bevan’s biography of 20th century artist William Dobell is like viewing one of Dobell’s portraits; Scott takes us behind the exterior of the subject and into their inner life. He just u…

Creating her work through intuition, Louisa Chircop takes us into another world – the world of her subconscious.

Dreamlike landscapes containing disembodied limbs, headless figures and mysterious fo…

William Mackinnon is a previous podcast guest. In this episode we talk about his show with Hugo Michell Gallery, ‘Learning to love the wind’ coming up in a few weeks.

We also talk about his life in I…

Belinda Fox’s work is extraordinary. Whether it’s an intricate bird in mid-flight or abstract geometric forms, she combines paint, printmaking, drawing, wax and collage to produce works of great deta…

Tim Maguire is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, acclaimed internationally for his astonishing large scale paintings. 

From afar, they are familiar subjects; flowers in a tight composi…

Colin Pennock’s work could be described as landscape painting but it certainly doesn’t fall into that category in any traditional sense. 

Although there’s almost always a horizon line, or the remnant…

A true plein air painter, Emily Imeson has spent the last two years living a nomadic lifestyle travelling around Australia with her partner in their beloved Troopy 4WD.  

For much of that time Emily’…

There’s no mistaking a Lucas Grogan work. Whether it’s a mural, an ink drawing or an intricate quilt, his detailed monochromatic patterns are unique and his carefully chosen lines of text are loaded …