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Swain Hoogervorst lives & works in Cape Town, South Africa. In this episode we cover a bit of his background and how he entered the world of art and dive headlong into a deep discussion about subject matter. Our chat covers amongst other things, university in modern times and advice for young people, raw technique vs creativity and personal narrative,

In every episode of this podcast we will be referring to numbered pieces as we talk. The idea is that you follow along on Instagram at your own pace @the_art_investor, or else watch the ScreenCast on YouTube. 

This is a podcast designed not to update you on art market news or give you tips on how to make a profit trading art, but rather to provide a platform to emerging artists to reach an audience of fans and potential future buyers in an intimate meaningful way. Like buying shares in a company early on, buying art is like owning a small piece of that artists future success and providing them working capital to make more.

The format is a long-form discussion with the artist where we cover their history or early influences, their inspiration and education and their process, and then in the second section, to have the artist talk us through (in what ever level of detail they choose), 5 to 10 of their works. The idea for this section is that you leave this podcast playing in the background while you go to the_art_investor Instagram page and follow along with the numbered images we will refer to as we talk. 

Going off on tangents is really fun too..

Once we’re done with the numbered pieces, each episode ends with a series of rapid-fire questions.