By Phillip J. Mellen
Visual artist interview conversations about process and inspiration.
This interview is with Prince Edward Island artist, Stephen B. MacInnis. Parts of the process MacInnis enjoys most is the "history of the accidents that occur" along with the "ghost images" that sometimes appear will working on multiple layered paintings....
"There's no place for being careful when making art." This episode is with Rapid City, South Dakota artist, Matt Schaefer. Schaefer's beginnings with art worked in tandem with playing music. Painting shortly took over his focus and his unique ways...
Words of the day: work and work and work and work, destroy. Meg Lipke joins ahtcast for this interview. Working out of Brooklyn and drawing and collaborating with the past to create a modern conversation. Carrying the experience of an...
Words of the day: pause. confusion. change and interested. This interview is with Bloomington, Indiana artist, Peter Shear. I asked about the beginnings of becoming an artist, and Shear talked about it as being a kind of attraction to it,...
Ahtcast talks with Ashley Garrett for this interview. You will discover great descriptions of experiences that are both universal and specific in their private nature. To Garrett, art making is the tapping into the "energy and/or space that hovers around...
Ahtcast revisits the work of artist, Lorri Ott, in this episode. Lorri Ott and I originally spoke in February of 2012 and I thought it would be interesting to see what she has been up to in her studio as...
T J Donovan, a South Dakota native finishing his studies in Chicago, discusses his work and philosophies on art making. Donovan likes to preserve a space for abstract making and direct address in his work. He believes that working through...
Santa Monica, California artist, Julia Schwartz, joins ahtcast for this interview. Schwartz describes how she paints regardless of creative block and feels that social media has become a great artist community. Schwartz goes on to detail how she is open...
Interview with Brooklyn based artist, Ky Anderson. We chat about her views on how important it is to "work regularly" and to develop good habits when dealing with the internet, as it can become a big distraction. Anderson goes on...
To curate. To collaborate. To D.I.Y. Join ahtcast in this conversation with Julie Torres and Brian Edmonds. Both artists and curators etc. In this episode, they have shared the details of their experiences in curating along with a bit about...
Join ahtcast for this interview with Winchester, Hampshire UK artist, Alastair Eales. A real virtuoso regarding process and developing simplified palette possibilities. Eales talks about how it can be tricky to maintain the spontaneity of smaller works and sketches when...
London based artist, EC joins ahtcast for this interview. We discuss the value of preliminary work and all of it's different forms. EC also talks about the beginnings of a painting and how "automatic writing" plays a big part of...
Suzanne Kammin, a Newark, New Jersey based artist, takes us into her process and thoughts on being a painter who likes to play with the reversal of figure ground only to flip it back again. Suzanne talks about the processes...
This interview is with Philadelphia based artist, Tim McFarlane. In the interview, McFarlane mentions how he discovered art in High-School and the effect it had on him. He also describes his process, in detail, and how the computer is sometimes...
This interview is with Philadelphia based artist, Tim McFarlane. In the interview, McFarlane mentions how he discovered art in High-School and the effect it had on him. He also describes his process, in detail, and how the computer is...
This interview is a special one. It made it's way into more of casual conversation, and one where Susan Carr and I interviewed each other. Carr, a Cape Cod based artist, decided to visit my home and studio. During the...
"The less thinking you do, the more freedom you have." Join ahtcast as we are brought into the thoughts and process of Pennsylvania based artist, David T Miller. Miller describes his process as a "one person collaborative event" along with...
Inspiration from the ocean, weather patterns and the color of Cyprus, are all things that bring artist Bridget Fahy closer to her paintings. Fahy believes that the internet brings us to art as it's emerging and that creative block is...
"If I make it, I just let it live." Explore the thoughts and process of Whittier, California artist, Paul Urban. Urban details his experimental process and how he likes to keep things fresh. He strives for his work to be...
Michigan artist, Dennis Michael Jones, details his inspirations and process. Jones goes into the importance of making notations to fuel his work, and how he respects the digital side of making art. He works with both text and spacial explorations...
This episode is an interview with Cumbria, United Kingdom based artist, Carol McDermott. McDermott goes on to state how important feelings and imagination are to her process. She also expresses her love of sketchbooks and how meditation is one of...
Step inside the art and process of Sydney, Australia artist, Inga Dalrymple. She describes her process as "building a character up" and how intuition plays a big role while working. Dalrymple also feels that art school "gave me my voice...
Join ahtcast in this interview with California based artist, Connie Goldman. Goldman goes on to say that "Work comes from the work" and "It's healthy to stretch out in different directions." Her work appears to move in space and are...
The rush, the hassle, the anxiety, the battle, the surprise, are all things that drive Germany based Artist Sabine Tress. "Now, I really know this is who I am, and this is what I want to do for the rest...
Constructing paintings with "creative free-ness" utilizing grids and structures. Join me, and ahtcast, in this conversation with New York based artist, Louise P. Sloane, as she details her process and inspiration and how she has come to change her mind...
Paul Behnke - "(Painting is about)... a slow experience between the actual piece of art and the viewer." Listen in as, New York based Painter, Paul Behnke details some of his process and ideas, the importance of Art History and...
"Sometimes you have to make a lot of shitty things, pardon my French, to make something really good" - Sarah Snow. Join me during this wonderful chat with Albany, NY based Artist Sarah Snow as she takes us into her...
Join me as I talk with Artist Allison Long Hardy as she talks about her influences from natural elements and how it creates order and chaos. Welcome to ahtcast! Artist website: allisonlonghardy.com (podcast intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips)
"If I knew too much about what I'm doing I wouldn't do some of it. I like that kind of naivety to be there." - Charles Pinkney. Join me as I talk shop with Cornwall, England Artist, Charles Pinkney. (podcast intro/outro...
A pain-staking process that produces subtle association of pure existence. Invented color and found materials that are preciously married into poetic Art objects. Join ahtcast during this great discussion with Ohio based Artist, Lorri Ott. Enjoy! Artist website: http://www.lorriott.com/ (podcast intro/outro music...
Join ahtcast with NY based Artist Loren Munk. Munk speaks on the importance being aware of what else is being made in the Artworld and how it is essential to build a "tribe" and support your fellow Artist. Artist's website: www.lorenmunk.com (podcast...
Rhode Island based Artist, Caroline Doherty, sits with me to discuss the nuances of her work and practice. Join ahtcast in this conversation on surprise, interaction and communication. Artist website: http://www.carolinedohertystudio.com/ (podcast intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips)
London based Artist, Clare Price, discusses her practice, inspirations and techniques. Spare, yet complex works that bridges the gap between digital and physical Art. Paintings that take a dimensional existence within the two-dimensional format. Great Art quotes in this one,...