In this episode, South African artist Beezy Bailey talks about his family roots, his time in New York with the likes of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, his Fine Art degree in London, his collaborations with rock stars David Bowie, Dave Matthews and Brian Eno, his alter ego Joyce Ntobe, and his response to exhibiting in an English stately home.

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Two Beezy Bailey sculptures exhibited at Boughton House

Two paintings from the Let There Be Light exhibition featuring prints from the Boughton House collection

Top shot courtesy Dan Weill Photography

Let There Be Light exhibitions:

Boughton House, Kettering 16 April – 22 May 2022

Everard Read Gallery, London 27 April – 1 June 2022

In an interview taken from the Considering Art archive in 2022, eminent sculptor Beth Carter talks about the symbolic significance of her bronze sculptures of animals and hybrid animals, how the minotaur became an obsessive subject of her work as she explores ideas of power, vulnerability, and grief, how the theme of duality in her sculptures references part of the human condition, and how one particular charcoal drawing became a way to help process a dark incident in her past.

Beth Carter talking with Bob Chaundy

Fallen Minotaur

Giant Minotaur Reading and Minotaur with Moth

Hollow King

Monkey and Hare, Fox and Pheasant, Wolf with Deer

The Long Way Home

Fighting Clowns III

Bacchus

All images are © Beth Carter

Watch Beth drawing Minotaur and Bird in a time-lapse recording here

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

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Hardeep Pandhal creates fantasy worlds centred on drawing in which he tackles challenging contemporary issues with a slice of humour. In this episode, he talks about his family background in Birmingham as the son of two Sikh parents, the racial prejudice he suffered, the influence of video games and digital media on his art, collaborating with his mother in textile work, how his biography became integral to his work, how he chose his avatar as a character called Sepoy Man and the members of his fantasy world he calls the Pintooverse.

Hardeep Pandhal talking with Bob Chaundy

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Sepoy Man

A Nightmare on BAME Street

Chocolate and the Charlie Factory 2023. Photo © Tegen Kimbley

Saag and Fish Fingers, Midlands Art Centre, photo © Tegen Kimbley

If I Wasn’t an Artist, I’d be a Terrorist, Midlands Art Centre, photo © Tegen Kimbley

Saag and Fish Fingers is showing at MAC until 1st February 2026

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Steve Nayar has been a nine times finalist for the Wildlife Artist of the Year competition and focuses on portraying endangered species. In this episode, he talks about his family’s lineage, what he learnt during his career in design and advertising, how painting a domestic cat sparked a change in direction, how a way of seeing is the key to his paintings, how horrified he was at the knowledge that so much of our wildlife is endangered, how photography aids his process, how he aims to paint the soul of his subjects and how his paintings can in some ways act as mirrors.

Steve Nayar talking with Bob Chaundy

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Chimpanzee

Mauritius, Fragile Paradise

Life’s a Risk, Innit

Aurelius, Goldfinch

Rudhek

All images are © Steve Nayar

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

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Meredith Owen explores our relationship with nature in her oil paintings. In this episode, she talks about how nature was important in her childhood, studying Fine Art photography, fulfilling a childhood obsession by travelling to Mongolia, how walking informs her art practice, how her landscapes are based on feeling rather than representation, how literature has influenced her work, how she enjoys creating ambiguity in her paintings and what she hopes the viewer will take from her art.

Meredith Owen talking with Bob Chaundy

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The world yawned open II, Robert Macfarlane

The woods were waiting for me with their breath and leaves of moss II, Edward Thomas

‘Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher,’ Wordsworth

Coulin by the Loch

All images are © Meredith Owen

Top studio portrait courtesy of Felix McCormack

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

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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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