Rosanne Guille is an artist and activist who grew up on the tiny Channel Island of Sark. In this episode, she talks about the idyllic childhood she had there, how the scenery of Sark was inspiring as a plein air painter of land and seascapes, how she became involved in a campaign to halt the over-development of the island by the billionaire Barclay Brothers, how moving to the nearby island of Guernsey saw the development of her artistic practice, and how she has responded artistically to the 80th anniversary of the Channel Islands’ liberation from the Nazis at the end of World War II.

Rosie Guille talking with Bob Chaundy

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Splendid Isolation (Nanna’s Oak, Sark)

Moulin Huet, Guernsey

Don’t Look Down and Sark Friends, two paintings featuring Rosie’s children.

Sark to Biberach and Back, Nellie Le Feuvre’s suitcase

All images are © Rosanne Guille

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

The exhibition Exile and Return commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Guernsey is at St Peter’s Church, Rue L’Eglise, Guernsey from May 7th.

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Andrew Gifford’s paintings of both nature and cityscapes are concerned with the shifting effects of light and atmosphere. In this episode, he talks about painting wildlife from an early age, how particular episodes in his life forged his individual identity, the influence of an art teacher, why he painted cityscapes and the pleasant interactions with the public it entailed, how art has enriched everything he looks at, how his visual language has developed, the importance of shadow in his works, his recent trip to Costa Rica and his experience of the effects of climate change and loss of diversity.

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Road with Church into Bradford

View from the Wild Jordan View Café looking North-East, Evening

All images are © Andrew Gifford

Top shot of Andrew courtesy Natasha Bidgood Photography

You can see more of Andrew’s work on the John Martin Gallery website

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Californian artist Jacqué Price paints landscapes, animals and figures in what she calls a “representationally expressionistic” way. In this episode, she talks about a near-death experience which changed her life, how she initially gave up art to study neuropsychology and subsequently practise various forms of wellness therapies to contribute to society, how she took art up again after her own metal health suffered, and how she creates an “awkward, elegant aesthetic” in her paintings.

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From the series Quirky Birds

All images are © Jacqué Price

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

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Carolyn Tripp makes traditionally-shaped porcelain ceramics but gives them a contemporary twist. In this episode, she tells of how family members first piqued her interest in ceramics, why she gave up a successful career in advertising to follow her passion, how she flourished during her degree at Camberwell College in London, how she helps support people with mental illness through creating ceramics after processing grief of her own, and how she gives her pieces a modern feel.

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Mum’s Flowers IV

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

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Sophie Duez is a multidisciplinary emerging artist with a particular love for graphite. In this episode, she talks about why she felt an outsider as a child, how having double vision has affected her art, why she chose to study Illustration for which she gained a first-class honours degree, the unconventional techniques she has learnt, details of some of her drawings and how she is developing as an artist.

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There is Evil

Unreachable

Fossil of a Girl

All images are © Sophie Duez

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

Her current exhibition, Emerge, is showing at the Crypt Gallery, Norwich, until 29 March.

You can view the catalogue here https://www.sophieduez.com/emerge

American artist Paige Perkins, now based in England, draws on mythology, fairy tales and symbols to create paintings in which hybrid creatures and ambivalent faces abound. In this episode, she talks about how she chose painting over ballet, how art school in London loosened her style, how regular Jungian analysis has influenced her work, how she aims to visualise her subconscious through her process, how the state of the natural environment concerns her, and about those artists who influence her.

Paige Perkins talking with Bob Chaundy

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All images are ©Paige Perkins

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

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Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based artist who tells life stories through weaving. Here, she talks about how she turned to weaving after initially studying painting, how her early works were made to process the trauma of domestic abuse, how she established the We Were Never Alone workshop project to help other abuse victims, the fibres she uses, how environmental sustainability has been a theme of a series of works, the Journal series in which she weaves a visual diary, and about her close relationship with her late grandparents that spawned her current exhibition.

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That Bad Space

Numb

After

Alone Against It All

Two works dedicated to Bryana’s grandparents at her Two Hundred and Fifty One Days Days show

All images are © Bryana Bibbs

Two Hundred and Fifty One Days is showing at The Chicago Cultural Center until 18 May 2025

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Melita Denaro paints landscapes from her home on the Isle of Doagh in the Irish county of Donegal. In this episode, she talks about childhood memories, studying ceramics, working as an art teacher in a tough north London school, charming her way into the Royal Academy Schools, making a series on the Crucifixion based on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, how she was persuaded to take up landscape painting en plain air, how light is the most important aspect of her works and how she copes with Multiple Sclerosis.

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The Tragedy of War – The Troubles, Belfast

Head Study

Drawing based on Michelangelo’s Pieta

All images are © Melita Denaro

All This and Heaven Too is showing at the John Martin Gallery March 5-21

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Yeside Linney only took up art professionally after retiring from a career as an English teacher. Yet her landscapes, portraits and abstract works have brought her early success in terms of prizes and exhibitions. In this episode, she talks about life in English boarding schools to which she was sent from her birthplace in Nigeria, how she “decolonises” her past through the themes of her artwork, how she focuses on the feminine side of Yoruba culture, how her English upbringing and Nigerian heritage gives her an “enduring vulnerability”, how her work has a brooding element and is mood-driven, and why she made a series entitled Scarification.

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Alchemy and Elemental

All images are © Yeside Linney

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

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Daniel Shadbolt paints portraits, landscapes and still life using cleverly contrasting soft colours and shadow. In this episode, he talks about his experience at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal Drawing School, examples of inspiring advice he’s been given by both tutors and other artists, the influence of Impressionism and post-Impressionism on his oil painting, how his style has become more abstracted, how he handles colour, how he draws the viewer into his landscapes and still life work, and about some of his regular sitters.

Daniel Shadbolt talking with Bob Chaundy

Catherine

All images are © Daniel Shadbolt

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

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