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The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #14. Emil Oskar Andersson ~ Curator Of Daily Paintings & Cultural WriterEmil Oskar Andersson runs and curates the hugely popular Instagram page Daily Paintings, where he posts and writes about paintings that move him every day. He is also a cultural writer for Corren a Swedish national newspaper and media outlet.
2025-06-1350 minThe Lives Of The ArtistsEp #13. Kay Gasei ~ London Based British Zambian ArtistKay Gasei is a London-based artist born in 1991 who traverses the intricacies of narratives and myths in his artistic practice, illuminating a realm of profound artistic exploration. Employing symbolism, recurring motifs, and enigmatic characters set within abstract spaces. Gasei breathes life into the narratives on his canvases, evoking an enigmatic allure that bewitches viewers.
2025-06-0853 minThe Lives Of The ArtistsEp #12. LUAP ~ Contemporary British ArtistPaul Robinson, better known by his alias of LUAP, is a Contemporary British Artist based in London. He is known for his depiction of ‘The Pink Bear’ which he uses as a muse within his artworks. His work spans the creative fields of photography, painting, sculpture and performance art.
https://www.luapstudios.co.uk
2025-06-0249 minThe Lives Of The ArtistsEp #11. Paola Vojnovic ~ Leonardo Da Vinci’s Life, Drawings & Vitruvian ManPaola Vojnovic is an art historian with two master’s degrees and more than two decades of research and writing about Renaissance artists. Paola brings an exceptional level of expertise about Renaissance Europe and passion to her work as lecturer, teacher, and tour guide.
2025-05-261h 42The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #10. Michael Shane Neal ~ America’s Leading Portrait PainterMichael Shane Neal (born November 23, 1968) is an American portrait artist who currently serves as the chairman of the Portrait Society of America. Since beginning a full time career as an artist at the age of 21, Neal has completed more than 600 private and public commissioned portraits on display around the world. His work includes seven U.S presidential cabinet members, four former U.S. Ambassadors, seven U.S. senators, over a dozen Federal Judges, four U.S. governors, actors, and heads of universities. He has painted notable figures such as President George H.W. Bush, actor Morgan Freeman, jazz great...2025-05-191h 29The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #9. Toto Bergamo Rossi ~ Director Of Venetian HeritageToto Bergamo Rossi is a restorer specializing in the conservation of stone, has restored important monuments in Italy and abroad. Since 2010 he has been the director of Venetian Heritage, an international nonprofit organization with offices in New York and Venice, which supports cultural initiatives through restorations, exhibitions, publications, conferences, studies, and research, with the goal of making the world more aware of the immense legacy of the art of Venice. He has led numerous restoration projects, exhibitions, and publications.
2025-05-1434 minThe Lives Of The ArtistsEp #.8 Urban Larsson ~ Portrait Painter To The Swedish & Dutch Royal FamiliesUrban Larsson is an oil painter in the figurative tradition. Striving for beauty and universal human values, he paints only from life. He was born in 1966 in Stockholm and has lived and worked in Amsterdam for nearly three decades. Urban’s prestigious and numerous portrait commissions are international. He has for example painted the official portrait of HM Queen Silvia of Sweden and King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. What sets Larsson apart from most other painters is that he also masters other genres, such as still-lifes, landscapes and figures. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and USA...2025-05-091h 06The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #7. Thelonious Stokes ~ African American Artist Collected By MadonnaThelonious Stokes is an academically trained oil painter, filmmaker, performance artist and designer based in Florence, Italy. He’s the first African American to graduate from the prestigious Florence Academy of Art and founder of The Black Academy of Art in Italy. Shaped by his Baptist culture and upbringing around jazz music on the Southside of Chicago, Stokes gravitated towards art at an early age as a means to express himself. Stokes’s work interrogates Western art history and Judeo-Christian themes – challenging and recontextualizing the canon to include themes and depictions of Black figuration that have been historically omitted. In thi...2025-04-281h 14The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #6. Tania Rivilis ~ Winner Of The William Locke Portrait PrizeTania Rivilis began painting at the age of 27, after moving to Germany in 2012. Since 2015, she began taking part in art shows and exhibitions around the world. Tania’s paintings are now part of museum, gallery, and private collections all over the world, such as Jonathan and Stuart Hyman collection, State Museums of St. Petersburg (Saint Petersburg Museum, Vladimirskiy Palace and Marble Palace), and Astoria Hotel (Rocco Forte Hotels). Since 2019 Tania is a permanent exhibitor at Bonnard Galerie, Netherlands, and Arcadia Contemporary, New York, as well as displaying work at LA Art Fair (presented by Arcadia Gallery), and Amsterdam First Ar...2025-04-211h 10The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #5. Dr Stephen A. Murphy ~ Worlds Leading Expert On Buddhist & Hindu ArtDr Stephen A. Murphy specializes in the art and archaeology of Buddhism and Hinduism in first millennium CE Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand and Laos. He has a particular interest in the 7th to 9th centuries CE as well as maritime connectivity between Southeast Asian cultures, Tang China, and the Indian Ocean world in general. His museological focus engages with issues of restitution and curation of Asian art. Stephen joined the SOAS University in November 2020. Prior to this he was Senior Curator for Southeast Asia and curator-in-charge of the Tang Shipwreck Gallery at the Asian Civilisations Museum...2025-04-141h 05The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #4. Tom Richards ~ Director Of The Florence Academy Of Art, Artist & Art HistorianTom Richards is Director of the Florence Academy of Art, an Artist and Art Historian. In this insightful conversation we discuss his studio practice, his influences, commissions, inspirations, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Van Dyck, Titian, the influence that Rubens had over European art and much more!
2025-04-071h 06The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #3. Andy Woll ~ L.A Based Artist Represented By Night GalleryAndy Woll is an expressive painter whose work oscillates between abstraction and representation. The subject of many of his paintings over the past decade has been Mount Wilson in Los Angeles, horses in full profile, and Diego Velázquez’s paintings of Infanta Margaret Theresa from the 17th century. He has compulsively painted these subjects taking inspiration from artists who returned to similar subject matter throughout their careers such as Paul Cézanne with Mont Sainte-Victoire and 18th century painter George Stubbs famed for his horse portraiture. By fixing the subject matter Woll experiences the freedom to explore other aspe...2025-04-021h 10The Lives Of The ArtistsEp #2. Sue Tilley ~ Lucian Freud's Iconic Model & MuseSue Tilley modelled for Lucian Freud from 1993-96. He painted several large nude portraits of Tilley, 'Evening in the Studio', 1993, 'Benefits Supervisor Resting', 1994, 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping', 1995 and a fourth painting 'Sleeping by the Lion Carpet' was painted in 1996. Freud also produced a number of etchings featuring Tilley, including Woman with an Arm Tattoo which Tilley sold in 2005. In 1997, she published Leigh Bowery: The life and times of an Icon, a biography. This has been republished to coordinate with the Leigh Bowery retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern on now. In this episode we discuss the inner working life of...2025-03-2650 minThe Lives Of The ArtistsEp #1. Jan Six ~ Worlds Leading Rembrandt ExpertJan Six is a Dutch art dealer, art historian and world’s leading Rembrandt expert. In 2018, he identified ‘Portrait of a Young Gentleman’, this was the first new Rembrandt identified in 44 years. The experience was filmed for an award winning documentary called ‘My Rembrandt’. In this episode we discuss the life, work and legacy of one of the greatest artists to have ever lived, Rembrandt van Rijn.
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