In today's episode of never before heard conversations from my archive, I speak with portrait painter Christian Allison. Christian hails from Nigeria, a self-taught artist who left a career in engineering to pursue art full time.

We talk about his commitment to learning, to his love of painting elderly people, how he manages to relay so much emotion through his subjects, especially the eyes. How he enjoys the solitary nature of his work, his harshest critic being his girlfriend. And we of course talk about music.

One of the things that struck me the most about our conversation and why I love interviewing people from around the world, was how Christian talks about his practice. With none of the self-deprecation associated with British culture, Christian loves his work and states it as fact, without any guile or artifice.

Guest: Christian Allison

Title: There’s something unique about the eyes that has to come alive

Music: Dunsin Oyekan and Nathaniel Bassey

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