Considering Art Podcast

Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin, partners in life and work, have established a worldwide reputation for glass installations and sculptures using ground-breaking techniques. In this episode, they talk about how they met and how their teamwork evolved, how they set up a glassworks in Switzerland before moving to Paris to concentrate on sculpture, how they... Continue Reading →

Bristol-based abstract painter Stewart Geddes has enjoyed a successful career both as a painter and an educator. In this episode, he talks about childhood encounters with art, when abstraction first attracted him, the influence of French modernist painting and the St Ives artists, the concept of the Modern Ruin, different ways of learning, his process... Continue Reading →

Melanie Miller is a Cornwall-based still life painter of nature. In this episode, she talks about her suburban background, how nostalgia, memory and legend influence her works, how she used to paint detritus and everyday items, how she collects objects from nature as part of her practice, how she is fascinated by moths, why she... Continue Reading →

Jason Michael Bentley is an American fine artist based in Scotland. In this episode, he talks about how a love of drawing cartoon characters as a child led to portrait painting in later life, how learning Tae Kwon Do as a child gave him a sense of community and discipline, how this led to an... Continue Reading →

Scottish painter Lewis Deeney’s work combines geometry, philosophy and modern technology. In this episode, he talks about how geometry has always obsessed him especially the mandala that contains elements of eastern philosophy that his passion for yoga had already piqued his interest, how he began as a tattooist, how abstract art was highly influential at... Continue Reading →

London-based Czech painter Hynek Martinec is a multi award-winning, classically-trained painter. In this episode, he talks about his early art education in Czechoslovakia, how he felt the need to give the symbols of old master paintings a modern interpretation, his time in Paris perfecting the art of painting human hair before moving to London, how... Continue Reading →

Emma Richardson paints large-scale abstract works full of emotion and drama. In this episode, she talks about balancing art with music, co-founding the rock group Band of Skulls while at art school, why she left it to concentrate on an art career, how her art took an abstract direction that was refined by a TURPS... Continue Reading →

Nick Williams is a Cornwall-based artist whose figurative oil paintings are rich in colour, texture and narrative. In this episode, he talks about his tropical-style garden, his difficult education, what drew him back to painting after a succession of interim jobs, the tale of his successive studios and their toll on his mental health, the... Continue Reading →

Sarah Kogan is an abstract painter whose swirling and multi-textured works have earned her an international reputation. In this episode, she talks about her family background in north London, training in abstract expressionist techniques, her installation Changing the Landscape based on letters sent home by her great uncle from the trenches in World War I,... Continue Reading →

For decades Michael Porter has been painting landscapes with innovatory techniques. In this episode, he talks about his upbringing in Derbyshire, how he developed a three-dimensional approach to painting, his use of photography in his practice, the process he uses and what inspires his landscape paintings. Michael Porter speaking with Bob Chaundy Accompanying images on... Continue Reading →