In this episode, British artist Paul Hodgson explains how and why his practice is primarily concerned with reconstructing important moments in art history by deconstructing the process by which the artwork is made. He discusses the symbolism behind earlier paintings and the process of making them, and he talks about his latest exhibition entitled Zot in which he combines sculpture, painting, photography and digital media.

Paul Hodgson talking with Bob Chaundy

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Masquerade, 2001

Dormant Figure, 2008/9

All images are © Paul Hodgson

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

His exhibition, Zot, is showing at Varvara Roza Galleries, 27 Feb-27 March 2026

Joan Danziger is a 91-year-old American sculptor whose fantastical works have adorned many a museum and gallery across the United States. In this episode, she talks about how surrealism attracted her even as a child, how after graduating from Cornell University as an abstract painter, she joined the art scenes in Woodstock NY and New York City, how she first started sculpting, her love of mythological figures, the importance of animals to humans, the influence of foreign religions and cultures, how she developed her sculptures of horses, beetles and ravens, and about her first retrospective in Washington DC.

Joan Danziger talking with Bob Chaundy

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Owl Mother and Into the Magic

Sunshine Girl’s Love Band

Aerial Conjunction

Sapphire Raven

Red Beetle

Majestic Triad

All images courtesy of the artist except for top photo of Joan courtesy Neil Greentree

The Magical World of Joan Danziger is showing at the American University Museum, Washington DC Feb 7 – May 17 2026.

It’s curated by Jack Rasmussen.

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Joanna Whittle is a multi-prize winning landscape artist regarded by some as the greatest painter of her generation. In this episode, she talks about the influences of a childhood spent abroad, her attraction to tents and fairground structures and what they mean conceptually and metaphorically, the dualities in her paintings, the lack of planning in her process, the uncanny nature of her work, her love of loneliness as an artist, her attraction to shrines, why she paints small-scale, and about the Heavy Water Collective she co-founded.

Joanna Whittle talking with Bob Chaundy

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Rain Tent

Glow Slump

Darkened Heart ( a fugitive and wanderer on the earth)

All Day It Has Rained and Unsheltered Rain Desert (not here)

Forest Shrine (mouth)

The Machine

All images are © Joanna Whittle

Top photo courtesy Jashan Walton

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

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Narinder Sagoo’s visionary drawing skills have been instrumental in imagining architectural spaces in his role as Head of Design and Communication for Foster and Partners. In this episode, he talks about how drawing was a key part of his childhood in a family of makers, how he excelled at art in school despite being bullied, how he learned important skills at the Bartlett School of Architecture, how he used these skills to design a zoo for which he spent time with animals there, his work with the charity Life Project for Youth, and his artwork representing the more than 10,000 young people who have benefitted from the charity.

Narinder Sagoo MBE talking with Bob Chaundy

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Memories of my Father’s Workshop

Sketch made in St Peter’s Square, Rome

Aerial Vision for London

10,310 beneficiaries of Life Project 4 Youth drawn and digitised for the exhibition and auction Together We Art at The National Army Museum on January 29-30 2026.

All images are © Narinder Sagoo

Harold Offeh is a Ghana-born British artist and educator who uses a range of media to investigate the way we think about social, political, sexual and racial models. In this episode, he talks about how performance became a natural part of his work, his project on London’s longest artwork at Holborn Viaduct, how and why he uses his own body in much of his art, how he mimics black female actors and singers to highlight racial stereotyping, his tongue-in-cheek look at our wellness culture, projects arising from residencies in Japan and Canada, and why he believes art is undervalued by policy-makers in Britain.

Harold Offeh talking with Bob Chaundy

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Selfie Choreography

Betty Davis from Covers series

Graceful

Lounging

Nuit Blanche

Harold’s current exhibition, Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could be Sweet is showing at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge until 1 March 2026

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

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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