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…
Philip Walker
Explain the importance of both Qest and training with Alison Crowther. My scholarship funding from Qest provides an opportunity to have dedicated…
Patricia Shone
Your method is very manual and physical discuss.Forest Jar, 2021, height 23cm The feel of soft clay in my hands and between my fingers. Years of…
Sahar Freemantle
Discuss race season and its value to millinery. The racing carnival is big in Melbourne with the 'Melbourne Cup', the race that stops a Nation.…
Richard McVetis
Do you feel that coming to embroidery without any preconceived knowledge has been a great asset to your work?I had a very basic view of textiles…
Cate Inglis
What draws you to paint urban landscapes? I have always had a fascination with architecture. The earliest memories I have are from when I lived in…
Eileen Braun
How did Spruill Arts help you to establish the direction you wanted your art to move to? After 2 years of concentrated encaustic wax development, I…
Frances Priest
Discuss the importance of detail in your work I have always been drawn to intricate things, providing a place for concentration focus and respite……
Tina Vlassopulos
When did you decide to do one-off built pieces? I studied ceramics in the 70s when an interest in sculptural ceramics was just beginning to grow but…
Margaret Jones
Can you explain ‘The Way of All Flesh’? This piece came out of seeing the scans of my Mums brain when she was diagnosed with vascular dementia. It is…
Julie Nelson
Can you discuss the importance of symbolism in your work? Symbols allow us to communicate without the barrier of language. They might mean different…
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…
Björk Haraldsdóttir
How has your architectural training influenced your ceramic work? My background in Architecture is naturally a strong influence on my work. Training…
Penelope McMorris
What made you change direction and start on a career in photography? It was more a matter of “discovering” photography than of changing careers. I…
Nicholas Lees
You have said, “I am intrigued in exploring the boundaries between shadows and light.” Discuss in relations to your current work. My current body of…
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,…
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…
Kate Schuricht
On completion of your Three Dimensional Design degree you participated in a ceramic residency in Japan. How did your time in Japan influence and…
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…
Louise Richardson
Explain how you use three mediums, textiles, sculpture and photography to make a piece.Talisman Talisman has all three of these ingredients within…
Emma Rodgers
Can you expand on the importance of people, places and experiences in your life as an artist? People who have influenced me There have been so many…
Greg Winrow
Take two architectural works and expand on them and what initially drew the sites to you?Fossgate Glory With ‘Fossgate Glory’ I was drawn to the…
David Poxon RI
Why don’t you use white paint in any of your work? Many years ago, I came back to watercolour as my primary medium of expression. I wanted to perfect…
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…
Kerry Miller
Can you expand on several of your floral works? One of the first flower book sculptures I made was called “Plant Life of the Black Forest” where I…
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…
Susan Cutts
Are all, of your sculptures constructed in paper? Yes, I work solely in paper although having said that I have used tulle dipped in pulp for the…
Bruce Marks
Your Bird Series is about form, can you discuss the importance of human recognition of form and your bird series? I think that certain forms can…
Jayne Stokes
How important is photography to your work? Photography plays an important role in the development of my work. The starting point for 90% of my pieces…
John Bulmer
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN BULMER, POPPERFOTO - COPYRIGHT - MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION. From your years, of photography in the professional…
Yasemen Hussein
What made you move from glass to metal? I actually started off my imagined career as a dancer, god did I want to be a dancer, but my parents were…
Deborah Duffin MRSS
The natural world has had a huge influence on your work. How can this be seen in two current works and one from the past. I began to look at the…
Cathryn Shilling
How did your move from the UK to the USA in 2001 lead you to your career in glass? In 2001 my family moved to a small town on the east coast of the…
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…
Chien Wei Chang
You have been in the UK since 2000, what lead you to take this leap from Taiwan to UK? I used to work in Tiffany & Co. Taiwan for nearly 4 years,…
Ian Hodgson
Ian Hodgson, Brighton, UK Graphite has been used in art since it was discovered in 1564. Ian Hodgson’s graphite drawings take us into the 21st…
Eleanor Bolton
Sailors, Scouts and Girl Guilds all know about knots, now Eleanor Bolton uses historical knotting and coiling techniques to make contemporary…
Tessa Bunney
Can you expand on FarmerFlorist Exhibition? How did you become involved?I have been working on FarmerFlorist for just over 2 years – prior to…
Chris Kettle
What has been the importance of looking closely at old masters in relationship your own work? Before I started referencing the Old Masters my Still…
Lisa Lloyd
Discuss the importance of natural patterns in your work? I’m blown away by the total beauty of nature: incredible patterns, symmetry, colour,…
Stephanie Ho
Can you discuss your style and the style of Lowry? People often said my works reminded them of L. S. Lowry, an important English painter in the mid…
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…
Peter Hayes Bath
Your studio is in a very ‘special’ place can you share your studio and showroom with us? I converted the old toll house on Cleveland Bridge into a…
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…
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?…