Michele D'Avenia
What was the point in time when you knew that you wanted to be an artist? Ever since I was a child, I have always been attracted to drawing. I…
Claire McCall
Why do you find, using palette knives so satisfying in your work? How many sizes do you use? I love the buttery texture of oil paint and find the…
Sherry Czekus
What led you to paint everyday life? Photographing the liveliness of city life and crowds of people is what led to my interest in painting everyday…
Elizabeth Becker
You make the interesting comment, “The watercolours have a life of their own, as they bleed together and slowly bloom, it is liberating to me – it…
Sally Ward
What led you to specialize in portrait painting? I’ve always been interested in the human figure as a subject and used to draw faces endlessly as a…
Leree Lindsay
Do you feel that your current environment in country Australia, is directly influences your, work? I live on a farm in the Northern Rivers my studio…
Ian Mastin
You commented “ …everyday objects which have no intrinsic value except for the richness of their history and the hands through which they have…
James Ainslie
How has the coast directly affected your painting?Into the Shadows, Acrylic on linen I was born near the coast and have spent a lot of my life…
Ann Oram
Colour is a signature of your work. Discuss this using several of your paintings. Colour and its use is a very Scottish thing. I think we have a lot…
Barbara Nell Morejon
You have been working with textiles for over 30 years. When did you narrow it down to felt making? Felting became my sole focus in 2005 when I…
Paul Balmer
This is a new format for Zoneone Arts. I would like to introduce you to Paul Balmer using two videos and following each video with the questions…
Stephen M Redpath
Many of your watercolours are dominated by the horizon – discuss. The horizon is a mysterious, glorious and untouchable thing and I spend a lot of…
Susan Avishai
You have been working with textile waste for the past ten years. What lead you to this area of art? Inspiration. My mother died in 2009 and the sad…
Kit Glaisyer
Comment on how both your parents influenced your love of painting. Looking back, I can appreciate that my parents were my first painting teachers. I…
Caroline Bailey
What led you to take up painting full time? Was there something or someone who gave you the motivation? The motivation was always in me, I always…
David Edmond
You worked as a designer before starting you painting practice. Does this have any bearing on your paintings?1986 textile collection I ran my own…
Josée Tellier
Discuss how difficult it was initially for you to decide between art and music? I had to decide between playing violin or visual art. In a way,…
David Henty
How do you deal with the terms, art forger/ copyist? I like it although I prefer “art forger” to “copyist”. I’m always trying to replicate the look,…
Jessica Brilli
As we are all coping with COVID and being isolated. You have been painting. Comment on, ‘The Neighbor’s House’.Neighbor’s House, 9 x 12 inches,…
Abdelhalim Kebieche
Is your art your only source of income? Indeed, as my work reveals the reality of the tragic reality of ‘Man’. My works of art really don’t harmonize…
Susan Brown
You used to paint only in water colour, recently you have been working in acrylic too. How do you find the two mediums? I had to reverse my brain…
Raudyn Alfarto
What made you leave the world of architecture for the art world?Let’s Gather 2018, 90 x 60cms, Acrylic on Canvas As the Italian architect Renzo…
Henry Jabbour
You use colour and very heavy brush strokes; how do you still capture such serenity? That is such an interesting question. I definitely don’t feel…
Damian Callan
You title your art as figurative art, discuss this using image to explain the terminology. Most of my drawings and paintings feature figures and…
Belinda Wilson
Can you expand on your master’s Research, and relate the importance of art on current day issues – Climate change? The Master of Fine Art by research…
Denise Faulkner
Denise Faulkner, Mudgee, NSW, Australia Nostalgia and Nature are captured together. Zoneone Arts brings Denise Faulkner to you… Mudgee is truly…
Pete Sack
Pete Sack, North Carolina, USA Sack shows and explains how he creates his images through his seven stage process... Zoneone Arts brings Pete Sack to…
Trudi Harley
Don't give up your dream to paint - Trudi Harley testifies to this, proving the need to paint exists. Harley paints with honesty and maturity,…
Rebecca Campbell
Discuss why you enjoy working in a studio with other people? As an artist life can be very solitary, early on I realised that I was going slightly…
James Hart Dyke
The more British Artists I interview the more often HRH The Prince of Wales name keeps coming up. Can you discuss the opportunities of this…
Karen Beauchamp
You original training was as an architect, how has this influenced your current artistic work? My architectural training is something that I am…
Kevin Low
Your current exhibition is ‘Women and Men’ at Union Gallery in Edinburgh, discuss the title and how the exhibition was named. The title chose itself…
Henry Jabbour
You trained initially as a biologist and worked as a scientist, has this part of your past influenced your current art practice of painting people?…
Melissa Selby Brown
Discuss your series, ‘Outback’, taking us through the process from the road trip to the completed paintings. The prosaic fact of our daughter getting…
Robert Kelsey DA
Can you expand on your involvement with the Paisley Art Institute? I have been involved with Paisley Art Institute for over 40 years. The Institute…
Christine Webb
“My art practice is a core part of who I am, an extension of my environment and the various places I embrace.” Expand on this statement in…
Mark Noble
John Constable understood Turners vision as golden visions, glorious and beautiful. Can you discuss your own feeling related to the visions around…
Lucy Vader
How do you fit all that you do in, building design, painting and sculpture? Or is the only slow time when you have to rest your leg after breaking…
Susan Laughton
Line is an important part of your work discuss? Drawing has always been an important form of expression to me, whether artistically, technically or…
Trina Bohan
Can you discuss your use of colour? I usually paint with an earth palette, ochre’s, umbers and greys. And add touches of pure crimsons and oranges.…
Eva Mitera
How did the collaboration between Scotland and Poland come about? I first came to Edinburgh in 2005 or 2006 and loved it, the architecture mix of…
Gudmunda Kristinsdóttir
Can you discuss the importance of colour in your current work? The colours are essential in my work that is inspired by the nature of my country,…
Gudlaug Gunnarsdottir
You did your formal art training in Demark, can you explain how this came about? I was always certain about my future belonging to the practice of…
Ed Miliano
Can you explain about your time at the Pratt Institute in NY and why when it is mentioned in the art world we all sit up? I suppose it might be…