Conversations with artists, curators and authors about making it in the art world. We get behind the studio doors for entertaining and informative discussions about the journey through the visual arts, how projects were realised, ideas that informed new work and practical ways that artists can expand their audience and visibility.
Barbara Segal is a contemporary stone sculptor working in New York. In this episode of the podcast she talks about her training at the Ecole des Beaux Art, followed by training in Pietra Santa and Ca…
Sebastian Martorana talks about his work as a stone sculptor. Often considered memorial makers, stone sculptors face a common issue of viewers not being able to see past the difficulty of the materi…
Andrea Tyrimos is an artist who works in an oil tradition that she takes to the streets of London. Her work appears on telephone boxes, utility boxes as well as murals. Alongside this she has a proje…
Mark Pearson is an artist who works from his studio in the Bussey Building in Peckham, South London. His paintings are often built from studies from life and he is regularly seen on the streets of Pe…
Remi is an abstract artist whose work is shown around the world. Remi is an abstract artist whose work is shown around the world. He takes part in festivals, fairs and is often asked to deliver comm…
Sarah Needham is an artist whose work is based on research of shipping records from the 1700s. There she looks for records of pigments in the ships' cargo, which she then sources to create her own sp…
Patricia Volk is a sculptor from Northern Ireland who now works from her studio in the West Country. She was determined to get an art school education and began doing a series of adult education cla…
In this episode of the podcast I talk to Debbie Carne of Ali Joe Designs. Debbie's art work uses vintage plates on which she applies her designs sourced from old image libraries. We talk about the po…
I met up with Snowden Flood at her shop at the Oxo Tower, on London's South Bank. Surrounded by her work, we discussed show she arrived here.
Snowden trained in the UK and in New York and found herse…
In this episode I talk to Sam Peacock, an artist who works with multiple galleries and is often commissioned by clients to produce site specific art work.
We discuss Sam's abstract landscape art , ho…
Episode 8 of the podcast is about taking part in artists' fairs so that artists have a place to show, build their exhibiting cv, meet buyers, curators, and visitors directly to sell their work
Roy Ty…
Episode 7 of the podcast is all about licensing art which allows the artist to create another revenue stream from their work. My guest is Jehane Boden Spiers who is an art consultant, helping artists…
In this episode of the podcast I talk to business strategist and coach, Nicole Liloia.
She explains business karma which might be holding back your success.
Nicole talks about being responsive to ot…
In this episode I talk to Rachel Gluyas from Dulwich Festival Artists' Open House. Rachel organises the artists' open house much like I do for Camberwell Arts, and in this conversation we were able …
Gita Joshi talks to artist Liz Atkin who is an artist that uses her art practice to control her skin picking compulsion. In this episode we talk about the impact of art on mental health and how Liz …
In this episode we talk about arts markets and craft fairs where artists and makers can sell directly to the public.
My guest is Debbie Allen who organises the Camberwell Arts Market and we discuss h…
In this episode I talk to artist and designer Sarah Hamilton about the Just A Card campaign which encourages people to buy from independent shops and makers.
Sarah talks about what inspired her to st…
Gita Joshi and Sarah Hamilton discuss social media for artists and designers.
We talk about why artists should build their own audience and how this can help them reach buyers, stockists, curators an…