Considering Art Podcast

In this episode, acclaimed portrait painter Lorna May Wadsworth talks about how she began painting celebrities as a teenager, how her first London solo exhibition subverted the traditional male gaze, the experience of painting Baroness Thatcher over five sittings, how she depicted Christ as a black man to which someone took exception, the imaginative materials she has sometimes used in place of canvas, how she painted a relative of someone executed during the French Revolution, and why working quickly brings out the best in her.

Lorna May Wadsworth talking with Bob Chaundy

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David Blunkett

Baroness Thatcher

A Last Supper (detail)

Neil Gaiman (front and reverse)

Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, The White Druid of the Gorsedd of Bards (Rowan)

Just One Macaron More Please Mr Executioner

The Milliner

All images are © Lorna May Wadsworth

Top photo courtesy of Barney Cokeliss

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

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American artist Joe Fig talks about his Contemplation series in which he paints pictures of people in art galleries and museums looking at paintings, most recently last year’s Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam. He discusses the concept, his process and his fascination with body language. He also talks about the miniature sculptures he makes of artists in their studios, both historical and current, and how he constructs their implements in miniature and in extraordinary detail.

Joe Fig talking with Bob Chaundy

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Vermeer – Woman in Blue Reading a Letter

Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring (detail)

Vermeer – Mistress and Maid

Yayo Kusama, Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, The Love in My Heart

Jackson Pollock in his Studio – Miniature sculpture

Thomas Hart Benton in his studio – miniature sculpture

All images are © Joe Fig

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

Contemplating Vermeer is currently showing at the Sarasota Art Museum, Florida until April 13 2025

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In this episode, sculptor Tom Waugh talks about how he got the idea for sculpting in stone everyday objects such as crumpled cardboard boxes, takeaway coffee lids, jerry cans and wheelie bins, how these serve as both amusing but also carry an environmental message, the techniques he uses to create the hyperreal effect, how some are offended by his works and how he chooses the type of stone to suit the subject.

Tom Waugh talking with Bob Chaundy

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Crushed Box II and Big Pharma II

Wheelie Bin

Knife and Fork

Anthroposcene Coffee Lid and Fossil Fuel II

Big Takeaway

Traffic Cone

I’m Not a Robot

Lens

All images are © Tom Waugh

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Dola Posh is a young prize-winning photographer from Nigeria, now resident in England. In this episode, she talks about the difficulties adapting to life in the UK, how lockdown inspired her to document her pregnancy and ensuing motherhood through photography, how she experienced postpartum depression, how winning the Leica Women Foto Project Award in 2024 validated her photographic practice, how she has become involved in helping others suffering from post-natal depression, and what she most likes about being a photographer.

Dola Posh talking with Bob Chaundy

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Postpartum

Mother’s Day Year 3

Care

Washing Her Feet

Self-Portrait Breast-Feeding

All images are © Dola Posh

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

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Jim Murray is an actor well known for Masters of the Air, Primeval and playing Prince Andrew in The Crown. In this episode, he talks about how his love for art and action painting was ignited as a way to process his grief following the death of his young daughter 16 years ago, how his first acclaimed solo exhibition was inspired by John Constable, why he called it In Flow, how he has combined his other passion of angling with art in an unusual way in a new exhibition, and what art gives him that acting can’t.

Jim Murray talking with Bob Chaundy

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Inside Constable’s Storm

For Maria

From The Itchen

From The Test

From The Fhorsa

The canvases from Creatures of Light have been bathed in the rivers

View a short film about Creatures of Light here on YouTube

Creatures of Light is showing at The Royal Watercolour Society 15 -17 November 2024

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In this episode, Lucinda talks about her family’s artistic inclinations, how she became an elite skier, how she used her business studies to aid her career as an artist, how she uses projection mapping, animation and AI in her creative process, the influence of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 on her works’ themes and why she believes digital art is entering a new era.

Lucinda Dilworth talking with Bob Chaundy

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Hidden

Awakening

Digital Bloom

Projection mapping bringing art to life

Two still images from the Kei London Visual Art Agency stand at the British Art Fair

You can see more of Lucinda’s work including augmented reality and animations on her website

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Shocked by the complete omission of all women artists from the main referential book on art history, Janson’s History of Art, American painter Coral Woodbury decided to right this wrong. In this episode, she talks about ripping out the book’s pages and painting portraits in black ink of women artists upon them, how she uses palimpsest as a metaphor, how she has accumulated knowledge and experience on numerous overseas residencies, examples of a few of the extraordinary women that Janson did not include, and how she also paints, in oils and in colour, women in other series of works.

Coral Woodbury talking with Bob Chaundy

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1952 Chevy Convertible and Drowning Artist from Havana Colours series

Ulysses from Palimpsest series

Georgia O’Keefe from Revised Edition

Lavinia Fontana from Revised Edition

Marie Braquemond from Revised Edition

All images are © Coral Woodbury

You can see more of Coral’s work on her website and on Hackelbury website

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John Monks has been described as one of Britain’s finest figurative painters whose works can be found in many prestigious collections such as the Metropolitan in New York and the V and A in London. In this episode, he talks about the history behind his two studios, why he’s fascinated with dilapidated interior rooms, how he “inhabits” his paintings, how he sees each painting as creating a series of problems that have to be resolved, and the process by which he manages to create atmosphere in his works suggesting the passage of time.

John Monks talking with Bob Chaundy

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Study After Velazquez, 1990

Sound, 2024

Heat, 2018/19

Path, 2024

All images bar Suitcase are ©John Monks and courtesy Long and Ryle.

John Monks’s exhibition Palette is showing at Long and Ryle 23 October – 10 January 2025

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89 year-old Basil King has known and worked with some of the greatest names in American art. In this episode, he talks about his life in the east end of London before his family emigrated to the US when he was 11, enrolling at the legendary Black Mountain College as a teenager, meeting Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Robert Creeley, working with Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman in New York City, how his writing poetry accelerated after his first trip back to the UK, his painting themes and his heroes from art history.

Basil King talking with Bob Chaundy

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Robert Creeley, 1998

Throwing the Moon, Tom Seaver, 1984

From the series Stravinsky/Nijinsky, 1983

All images are © Basil King

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

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British artist Juliette Losq is an internationally established artist whose awards include the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the John Moores Prize and the John Ruskin Prize. In this episode, she talks about her grandfather’s unusual war experience, how she came late to practising art, how an etching course determined her painting style, how she paints large-scale in watercolour, how and why she became attracted to derelict sites and buildings overrun by nature, and her fascination with Victorian peep-shows and early cinema.

Juliette Losq talking with Bob Chaundy

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“We are the fiction of the vanished lives and buildings”, Jerwood Drawing Prize winner, 2005

Ascetarium, 2022

Catonium, 2022

Behemoth, 2023

Vinculum, 2014 John Moores Painting Prize Visitors Choice

Proscenium, 2017

All images are © Juliette Losq

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

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