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…


David Higgins

You have had many residencies take two and expand on how the actual residency developed your art. It is hard to say which residency has impacted me…


Laura Baruël

Your work is varied from origami, plant printing and large paper art. How and why have Nordic flowers played such an important role in this work? At…


Nigel Cheney

Your work is often full of storytelling – comment. I am driven by narrative. I tend to anthropomorphise to an unhealthy extent and from an early age…


Nigel Cheney

Your work is often full of storytelling – comment.   I am driven by narrative. I tend to anthropomorphise to an unhealthy extent and from an…


Sarah Hatton

How do you use different handles on different baskets? The basket usually tells you what handle it needs by its intended fuction. Shopping baskets…


Michelle Mischkulnig

Expand on your quote, “I am passionate about my art, created with joy”.Ramblers Garden 2, Detail I love starting each day with the sense of…


Sally Cleary

What lead you to Paris? I married a French man in 2014 and moved to Paris. It was unexpected but life changing. How has your Australian background…


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…


Susan Howe

How did you first become involved with POSHU? I first went to Africa in 2008 to live with my husband and children. Our neighbour was a doctor working…


Yekaterina (Katia) Mokeyeva 

Take one piece that you are proud of and explain why? Innovation is what I am probably the proudest of. In sayings like "The new is the…


Angus McEwan

Can you expand on how you paint textures and surfaces? I work with watercolour to create my textures, exploring surfaces and details that convey each…


John Botica

Firstly, why pebbles? My interaction and encounter with pebbles was purely coincidental. My first cousins here in NZ are very successful and…


Antonia Salmon

Can we discuss the interesting past you have and how it has led and developed into the work you do today?  Labarinth Pattern Axe Head Both my…


Sidhart Sodhani

How did the Dye School coming into being?  I have been running a natural dye manufacturing and retail business over the past four and a half years…


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…


Katharine Coleman MBE

Discuss the very close and precise position you take up in your studio to do your work? I have a small studio, some 10ft x 9ft (3m x 2.5m), which…


Annika Ekdahl

Why did you specialize in tapestry?  All throughout my childhood and teens I drew and painted, but the Green Wave winds in the 1970s awoke my longing…


Helen Richman

You have an ancient craft that you give a modern take to doing bespoke pieces. Can you give some insight into a small but precious piece you have…


César Orrico

When did you first combine wood into your sculptures? I have always been interested in research on the different materials applied to sculpture.…


Gail Dell

Your work is often described as ‘playful’ what are your own thoughts on this in relationship to your work? I find that life in the studio requires a…


Barbara Burns

Can you expand on your relationship with fashion and your tapestry Revolution! Fashion Series?For about 10 years, I volunteered at a local…


Susannah Blaxill

Composition and cropping is very important to your work can you expand on this? The paintings and drawings have to work on the page. The choice of…


Lenny Lane

Can you expand on your innovative CV – Passport?  Inspiration: The inspired process is a difficult thing to explain or put into words. I recall…


James Wilson

 Can you briefly discuss your photographic history in relations to the Wilson Studio? Historically speaking, Wilson Studio is four generations old…


Susan Harrison-Tustain

  Perpetual Moment, Miniature painting, Watercolor on Arches 300gsm hot pressed paper, 130mm x 100mm Can we take your work in four sections? Close…


Shannon Weber

Discuss how your work, had to be self-taught? When I first started making objects while living in a remote area along the Rogue River in Oregon, I…


Christine Atkins

You work in three mediums, textiles, sculpture and jewellery can you discuss the integration you have between them? Early in my career there was very…


Jonathan Whitfill

Media Expand on the inspiration of the work? Almost all of the work that I make comes from language based concepts of individual units combining to…


Deborah Smith

Can you discuss the importance of movement in your work? When I collect a piece driftwood that I’ll use for my work, I find myself imagining the…


Pamela MacGregor

Explain how you were introduced to felt and the possibilities it presents to you artistically? I was an art teacher for 28 years in a public school.…


Jennifer Collier

 Do the materials you source speak to you? The papers themselves serve as both the inspiration and the media for my work, with the narrative of the…


Lanny Bergner

When do you decide which of your work will be large pieces or installation pieces? This varies depending on the exhibition venue. Sometimes I will do…