In this episode, Liza Giles talks about her previous career as an art director and interior designer, how she always painted concurrently, how her use of colour transferred to her fine art practice, how the artist Sean Scully helped raise her profile, the influence of the urban skyline and architecture on her work, how she experiments with collage in preparation of her large-scale paintings and how she balances hard lines and edges with intuitive painterly mark making.

Black Quadiptych (Composition IV)

Neutral and Orange maquette

Raw Sienna (Comp 3-22)

Green with Pink Flash

Blue Triptych

Grass Triptych (Composition 2)

All images © Liza Giles.

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

Liza’s current exhibition The Shape of Things is at Flowers Gallery, London

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In this episode, Steph Goodger talks about how childhood memories near the River Medway came to take on a symbolic significance, how social history, architecture and literature influence her works with particular reference to World War I, the Paris Commune and the sinking of the Lusitania. Steph talks about the tension between containment and release in both her subjects and her process and how researching historical archives is often the starting point for a project.

Steph Goodger talking with Bob Chaundy

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The Motherland

The Valley 1

Les Non-Réclamés 1

Lusitania 1 and 2

Hulk 2

The Twilight Kingdom IV

All images are © Steph Goodger.

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

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In this episode, this multi-award-winning artist talks about her classical training at the Charles H. Cecil School in Florence, how she creates atmosphere in her portraits, the importance of draftsmanship, how painting children requires different skills, the challenge of painting self-portraits and the joy of painting water.

Frances Bell talking with Bob Chaundy

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Gillian, winner of the Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award, 2022

Family Dress

Portrait of a young girl

Self-portrait and winner of the William Lock Portrait Prize 2021 and Portrait Society of America First Prize Painting

Mid-summer

All images are ©Frances Bell apart from the top shot of Frances Bell with Rumination which is courtesy Dillon Bryden

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In this episode, Leah talks about her background in photography, her interest in the interconnectivity of folk traditions, the Enclosure Acts, the Industrial Revolution and the transatlantic slave trade. She recalls her time in a folk punk band, and discusses her passion for Haiti, a country she says has been unfairly demonised. In particular, she talks about decades photographing in the country and how and why she came to make her award-nominated documentary Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters, in which the performers tell their version of their history and the difficulties and responsibilities this entailed for her.

Leah Gordon talking with Bob Chaundy

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Leah in her band, The Doonicans

The Burryman Festival, South Queensferry, Scotland, 2010

Roy, Stapeley Common, who has rights for grazing cattle, sheep, horses, pigs. Estovers (bracken). (2020)

Chaloska (Charles Oscar) from the documentary Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters. Charles Oscar Etienne was a Haitian military chief who massacred 167 political prisoners in the capital, Port au Prince in 1915, thus becoming a bogeyman at the carnival.

All images are ©Leah Gordon.

You can watch Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters here

Kanaval is showing at Ed Cross Fine Art until 18 February 2023

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In this latest episode, the two Scottish photographers discuss their creative partnership, and some of their photographic projects including As Others See Us in which celebrities such as actor Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Peter Howson and Nicola Benedetti are photographed after selecting their favourite Robert Burns poems, and Building Sights in which celebrities such as painter Alison Watt and Travis bassist Dougie Payne are photographed in their favourite Scottish locations. The pair discuss the thoughts behind the treatment and settings.

Ross Gillespie and Tricia Malley of broad daylight talking with Bob Chaundy

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Actor, Alan Cumming

Novelist, Denise Mina

Actor, Brian Cox

Musician, Nicola Benedetti

Novelist, Ian Rankin

Former racing driver and now entrepreneur, Sir Jackie Stewart

Prof. Stephen Webb

All images are STRICTLY © Tricia Malley, Ross Gillespie www.broaddaylightltd.co.uk

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In the latest of my series of audio interviews with contemporary artists, 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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In this episode, Belgian artist Johan van Mullem talks about his haunting, introspective faces created with etching ink, his peripatetic childhood, how his art has evolved to being more about humanity and less introspective, how his colour palette has widened, and how lockdown opened up new horizons.

Johan van Mullem talking with Bob Chaundy

Untitled, 2015

Iridescent and Field 3, 2018

Untitled, 2018

Untitled, 2022

Untitled landscape, 2021

Untitled of flowers, 2021

All images are ©Johan van Mullem

You can see many more of Johan van Mullem’s pictures on his Instagram page

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In this episode, Annie talks about how a family tragedy changed her life and her practice to create platforms for dialogue on mental health issues, how her public art installations became bright, brash and colourful, and how ice cream, a skip and dancing have all contributed to her aim of breaking the taboo around grief.

Annie Nicholson talking with Bob Chaundy

The Fandangoe Whip, image courtesy Tara Darby

The Fandangoe Skip in New York City

A Fandangoe Kimono

Fandangoe Mini Disco

A Last Supper

You can learn more about Annie Nicholson’s art on her website

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In this episode, UK-based American artist Jana Nicole talks about her roots in the Hollywood film industry, how she studied art in the UK and took to collage after moving permanently, her winning of the prestigious Puvis de Chavannes Award by the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris, her fascination with flora and fauna especially fungi, and her collage portraits of figures in the music business.

Jana Nicole talking with Bob Chaundy

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Jana’s prize-winning horror costume design

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Moonlit Troupe, Sunset Troupe and Radiant Troupe

One of the Animal Attraction series

Extinct from the Defaced exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

All images are ©Jana Nicole

You can see more of Jana Nicole’s work on her website

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One of Britain’s leading black artists, Eugene Palmer, talks about his childhood in Jamaica, how a school teacher inspired him to become an artist, how he evolved from abstract to figuration, the influence of black history and politics on his work, his innovative series of placing black figures in rural landscapes and his recent works of repeated images and portraits of family members that pose questions about race and identity.

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Duppy Shadow

Our Restless Hearts

In Between Black and White

Nadine Wild-Palmer (pink and blue) from the series Didn’t It Rain

Self-portrait with grandchild (Rory)

Eugene Palmer’s exhibition Standing Still is showing at Ed Cross Fine Art 17 November – 16 December 2022

You can see more of Eugene Palmer’s work on the above website.

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