Considering Art Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Alice Sheppard Fidler’s work spans sculpture, installation and performance. In this episode, she talks about her early career in design within the film, TV and fashion industries, being a founder member of Studio Voltaire Gallery in London, moving to the Cotswolds and working with a circus, why she took an MA in Fine Art, the creative inspirations for some of her sculptures that embody thought, narrative, history and the contradictions of human experience, and how performance and collaboration are important elements of her practice.

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From the series The Rock Says Come Here, from One Island – Many Visions, Portland Dorset

All images are © Alice Sheppard Fidler

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

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For the past 20 years, Sarah Adams has captured in oil the rugged features of the north coast of Cornwall where she lives. In this episode, she talks about the artistic journey she has made towards becoming a landscape painter, the extraordinary efforts she makes to explore the stacks, arches and caves that she depicts, her process involving detailed primary sketches and subsequent under-glazing and amplified colour, how she has noticed gradual changes in the coastline over the years and the threat of plastic waste to the coastal environment.

Sarah Adams talking with Bob Chaundy

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Top image courtesy of Harmony Murt

Sarah’s forthcoming exhibition is at The Maas Gallery

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Natalia Millman was born in Ukraine and came to England in her twenties. Her father’s dementia and subsequent death had a profound effect on her both personally and artistically. In this episode she talks about her Ukrainian background, how she pursued an art career after moving to the UK, how her father’s demise led to a refocus of her art towards expressing grief and life’s fragility, how research and experimentation became a key part of her practice, how she invited people to share their experience of personal loss through sending her letters, some examples of moving expressions of grief, and how she developed the idea into a multi-media and sensory exhibition entitled Letters to Forever.

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Ghost Mountains

From the Nature of Memories series

Grief Letter Dress

Top shot of Natalia is courtesy Stephanie Belton

All other images are © Natalia Millman

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

Piano Music is by Jonny Strinati

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Britt Boutros-Ghali was born in Norway but for the past five decades has lived in Egypt having married into one of the country’s foremost families. Her emotional abstracts and figurative expressionism are much sought after and she has been awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in the Arts by the Egyptian government. In this episode, she talks about her upbringing in Norway, how a move to Paris kickstarted her artistic career, her relocation to Egypt, how she paints every day with no plan and with many layers, how an exhibition in Norway in 2005 was marred by an unfortunate incident, and how she is striving to paint a masterpiece.

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Untitled

From the series Women of My World

Untitled

All images are © Britt Boutros-Ghali

Britt’s upcoming exhibition will be shown at Varvara Roza Galleries, 8 Duke Street, St. James’s, London, SW1Y 6BN 2-20 October 2025

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Hannah Gibson has held a passion for glass since childhood and is now a multi-award winning glass artist. In this episode, she talks about how her upbringing inspired her love for the material and for geology, how she has studied and practised many of the techniques for making glass and artworks from it, how sustainability is her other passion and how she casts from recycled glass using her geological background to analyse it, where she sources her glass, how she likes to share her passion with the public and some of the extraordinary reactions she receives as a result.

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Sweet Nothing

All images are © Hannah Gibson

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

Her exhibition, Glass Renewed is exhibiting at the Museum of Brands

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London-based, New Zealand-born ceramicist Raewyn Harrison has made the River Thames the focus of her practice. In this episode, she talks about the hobby of mud larking in which people discover all manner of everyday objects from centuries past in the Thames mud at low tide and how her own discoveries are made into ceramics, how she photographs old maps and de-commissioned installations in the Thames estuary and transfers them on to porcelain, her involvement in public projects and workshops around the Thames, her “protest” bottles, and about her latest work for the Museum of London’s mud larking exhibition.

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Booth Plate – Westminster and Lambeth

Back to the River Project

All images are © Raewyn Harrison

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

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Deborah Grice is a prize-winning British painter of atmospheric landscapes with a contemporary twist. In this episode, she talks about how she had ambitions to become a war artist, how moving from Glasgow to London to study art changed her practice, how ill health stifled many an interesting occupation, the origins of her geometric lines and forms in her work, how Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year reinvigorated her art career and how early feelings of emotional deprivation and her concerns for the future manifest themselves in the “visual dissonance” in her paintings.

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All images are © Deborah Grice

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

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