Drawing From Experience

In this week's episode, Martin Darkside returns to the podcast to discuss his upcoming solo show, "The Night Library," at Skull & Snake Tattoo and Gallery in North Berwick, Maine. We also chat about evolution as an artist, the starving artist trope and much more.

In this week’s episode, we speak with Jenny Allnutt, an internationally recognized and exhibited oil painter based in Australia, whose captivating and surrealistic portraits ambiguously explore the unconscious mind, transformation, and identity.

Growth, hardship, and adversity can always be felt in an artist’s work. In this episode, Jenny courageously opens up about the experiences that have shaped her both personally and as an artist.

This week's episode is with Kyra Wilson, amazing painter and art business expert! We chat about the business of art, ageism and sexism in the art world, The Strange Dreams Art Collective, and a lot of discussion about negotiating what you want with galleries!

This week’s episode is part 2 of the ongoing discussion about self-confidence and how to build it over time. We get into our own fears and reasons why, under certain circumstances, our confidence wavers. We tackle themes like fear, humiliation, and shame, while giving you some useful insight into how to push through those obstacles to emerge as a more confident artist.

This week, we interview Nychos, a renowned illustrator, urban artist and graffiti artist from Austria, known for his intricate and mind bending anatomical illustrations and murals.

With previous solo exhibitions in New York, Switzerland, Australia, and San Francisco, we discuss Nychos’ next solo show, “The Awakening,” which opens 2/22/22 at Mirus Gallery in Los Angeles.

In this episode, we catch up with Nychos about his progress so far with the upcoming show, and learn about some of the incredible experiences in recent years that have played a crucial role in what has led him to design this labyrinthian, one of a kind exhibition.

This week’s interview is with Lo Chan Peng, award winning Taiwanese artist specializing in hyper realistic oil painting. With worldwide recognition and achievement acquired at a young age, Lo opens up about what drives his evocative and awe inspiring portraits, including topics such as loneliness, death, fate, and history. We had the privilege of getting to know Lo on a deeper level with the help of Jeffrey Wang, who was present with us to translate this interview as needed.

Note: This episode is presented in English and Chinese.

This week, Shane and Stefania catch up with Paul Komoda, a multitalented illustrator, sculptor, jewelry designer, and model maker based out of Los Angeles, CA. Well known for his horrifying designs for films such as The Thing (2012) and Black Swan, Paul opens up about experiences working in the film industry, what it was like working with H.R. Giger, how his dreams have informed his work, and of course, they touch base on his progress with the current Kickstarter campaign set to publish his notorious sketchbook.

Shane & Stefania get a chance to chat with Mallory Hart, a dark artist based out of Denver, Colorado. Mallory is heavily immersed in the convention scene, and gives some great tips on setup, merchandise and what she has coming up this year.

In this episode, we introduce our new co-host Stefania Medeiros, an artist who has experience in the film & television world as a special FX, hair and makeup artist, an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and owner of the brick and mortar retail space Asteria. We chat about her synesthesia, her education in cosmetology, jewelry making, special effects and sculpting, and how she got to here.

This episode is a chat with Lena Conley, Gallery Manager and curator at Palette SF Gallery. Lena & Shane talk about the history of the gallery, what they have to offer that's different than other galleries, and their co-curation for "The Evil Among Us" dark art exhibition.