Caro Williams has earned a worldwide reputation for sculptures that are transformations into solid form of lines from books and poems as well as sound, particularly birdsong. In this episode, she talks about her fascinating family background involving Wales, France, China, Hong Kong and England, her school days in Hong Kong, her career in the British travel industry, her art education in England and New Zealand, how she began transforming text and sounds into solid sculptures, excerpts from poems that have inspired her, her process of making, and her plans to introduce Cantonese characters into her work.

Caro Williams talking with Bob Chaundy

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A Pause of Suspension, Wallace Art Prize shortlist

In the Shimmering Air, Wells Cathedral

Silent Echoes

In the White Dawn, shortlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize, 2023. Photo: Charlotte Graham Photography

Everyone was a Bird

Frozen Soundscape, Waterfall Iceland

You can see more of Caro’s work on her website

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Simon Casson is internationally acclaimed for his meticulous paintings based on the Renaissance style but with a modern twist. In this episode, he talks about his African upbringing, how seeing a Renaissance work in the National Gallery as a child had a profound impact upon him, where his style of adapting the Renaissance style originated, how he tries to create a modern narrative and to build up fragments of time in his works, his strange titles, how he employs mathematical principles in his process, how his paintings have evolved over time and how he tackles commissions.

Simon Casson talking with Bob Chaundy

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Romstal III and Anear III

All images are © Simon Casson

You can see more of Simon’s work on his website

Simon’s current exhibition, The Floralia, is at Long and Ryle until 9th January 2026

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Esther Neslen is a sculptor, ceramicist and educator in London who works both figuratively and in abstraction. In this episode, she talks about how art was a way of easing anxiety as a child, her early fascination with the human form, how sculpture and clay didn’t mix at art college, working as a graphic designer and then as an animator before returning to sculpture, how she placed human form sculptures in public places in London, her depiction of human relationships in abstract forms and how she has turned national and global events that have affected her personally into her art.

Esther Neslen talking with Bob Chaundy

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Waiting in Walthamstow

Complex Relationship 02

Self-Employed

Unequal Forms 05

Impacted Form 02

All images are © Esther Neslen

You can see more of Esther’s work on her website

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For 20 years, Louise Pragnell has made a speciality of painting the portraits of members of royal families and military top brass. In this episode, she talks about drawing her mother as a child, her years of studying art before turning to portraiture, what she defines as modern sensibility in her paintings, how she strives to capture the essence of her sitters, the decisions over the details and poses in her portraits, how she started painting the royals and military, her recent commission to paint the Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg and what she paints for fun.

Louise Pragnell talking with Bob Chaundy

Former Conservative leader, William Hague

Jeremy Clarkson

Household Cavalry

HRH Princess Royal

Grand Duke Guillaume and Grand Duchess Stephanie of Luxembourg

The Murdering Misguided Queen Cassandra

Koko

All images are © Louise Pragnell

You can see more of Louise’s work on her website

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Graham Crowley has had a long and distinguished career as a painter and teacher, won the John Moores Painting Prize in 2023 and holds strong views on what he believes painting is and should be. In this episode, he talks about his lack of cultural beginnings, his experience of conceptualism at art school and how it strengthened his belief in painting, the influence of the French painter Fernand Leger, his views on illustration, why he painted landscapes in the 1990s, how he’s attracted by luminosity in paintings, why he dislikes being called an artist, and about his prize-winning work Light Industry.

Graham Crowley talking with Bob Chaundy

So and Sew

Light Industry

Top photo of Graham courtesy of Bill Jackson

All other images are © Graham Crowley

You can see more of Graham’s work on his website

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Annemarieke Kloosterhof is a London-based Dutch artist who works in painting, collage, design and particularly in all things paper including single or multi-layered paper-cut illustrations, paper props, film sets and large-scale installations. In this episode, she talks about how her passion for paper first began, how nostalgia has been a theme in her work, the importance of experimentation, how she made a spectacular paper installation for the Bridgerton TV series, making three West-end theatres from paper, her use of recycled paper, how her paintings deal with issues such as female sexuality and how she has made paper versions of classic furniture for London’s Leighton House museum.

Annemarieke Kloosterhof talking with Bob Chaundy

Home Before Dark and Het Eerste Ijsje/The First Ice-cream, paintings

Bridgerton Series 3 Episode 6 Paper Craft Installation. Watch the scene on YouTube here

Red 3 from Hide and Seek Series, made from paper, photo Nick Dunne.

Rings of Power installation for premiere at British Museum

Tabernacle, recreated entirely in paper for Ghost Objects at Leighton House, London. Photo Jaron James

You can see more of Annemarieke’s work on her website

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Reena Saini Kallat is an Indian artist who has gained international recognition for works that focus on aspects of global conflicts, injustices, inequalities, and climate catastrophes. In this episode, she talks about her family story of Partition and the legacy of it that remains in her home city of Mumbai, how she expresses the issue of global boundaries and frontiers that cause dissension, how the inter-dependence of species inspires her, how she uses legal documents in her work to represent ideas of responsibility and freedom, how people who have disappeared are another source of influence, and about her current sculpture at Frieze London that features the bird calls of extinct species.

Reena Saini Kallat talking with Bob Chaundy

Leaking Lines (Indus)

Fluid Geographies

Verso-Recto-Recto-Verso

Woven Chronicles

You can see more of Reena’s work on her website

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Raghav Babbar is a young Indian artist who paints everyday people in a sensitive and empathetic way. His subjects reflect his Indian heritage and his works are highly sought after. In this episode, he talks about his upbringing in a family of businesspeople, travelling in the northern Indian states, the influence of British artists such as Lucian Freud whose work he came across when studying at the Royal College of Art in London, his love of painting self-portraits, his experience of witnessing the Hindu pilgrimage of Maha Kumbh and his process of putting paint on canvas.

Raghav Babbar talking with Bob Chaundy

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A Face in the Crowd

No Light in My Studio (self-portrait)

You can see more of Raghav’s work on his website

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Lucy Chapman is a multi-media artist whose artworks draw on scientific research. In this episode, she talks about how her father’s dyslexia motivated her to teach in special needs education, how social justice has been a driver for her, her attraction to cyanotype and her fascination with the Dream Machine and its interpretations of consciousness, her experience of prolonged illness including an out-of-body experience, how ill health has initiated many of her artworks, and how global uncertainty and the climate crisis have been other motivations for her art.

Lucy Chapman talking with Bob Chaundy

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Day to Day Living Artist’s Book in the form of Lucy’s reimagined NHS hospital file

Personal Data

Bill of Health in the window of Central St Martin’s, London

Kelp Forest from Forever is Composed of Nows

Garden from Measured Response exhibition, a collaborative artwork with 2003 Stop the War March photo by Joel Parsons

You can see more of Lucy’s artwork on her website

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Bianca Raffaella won the 2025 Women in Art Prize, a remarkable achievement for an artist who has visual impairment and is registered blind. In this episode, she talks about the nature of this impairment, how she developed an eating disorder in her youth, how she spent successful years as a fashion designer, how lockdown led her to return to painting, her technique for putting paint on the canvas, her experience of applying for the Tracey Emin Artist Residency, how she has become an activist for other sight-impaired people and how she collaborated with a printmaker for her current exhibition of portraits.

Bianca Raffaella talking with Bob Chaundy

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All images are © Bianca Raffaella

Her current exhibition, She Cannot Fade is at Flowers Gallery until 11 October 2025

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