
In Conversation
By Creative Coverage

In ConversationJan 19, 2021

Talking floral and equestrian art
Cotswolds based Alexandra Churchill talks to Tim Saunders about her art and her secret marketing weapon.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/543-alexandra-churchill

Russ Chester talks about art, Wales, camper vans and rock climbing
He studied photography and art and his landscape paintings of Welsh scenes are popular.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1313-russ-chester

Large canvases celebrating the beautiful Yorkshire landscape
Heather Burton adores the Yorkshire landscape, which inspires much of her art but she also produces still lifes.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1307-heather-burton

Watercolour landscapes and portraiture
David Thomas ARSMA has drawn since he was small and feels that this ability helped him to become an architect and now a successful landscape and portrait painter working in watercolours.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1305-david-thomas-riba-arsma

iPad paintings, art therapy and facial blindness
Once a junior doctor, artist Danny Mooney is turning his hand to political cartoons.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/900-danny-mooney
Didgeridoos and weaving
Award winning weaver Margaret Jones chats to Tim Saunders about how she became a weaver and how her didgeridoo playing complements her art.
Nostalgic art, oils and Turner
Memories of childhood are expertly created by Amanda Jackson who tells Tim Saunders about her passion for high quality oil paints and hog brushes. But if she comes across inferior paints she'll find a use for them...
Recording the history of Newham through paintings
Ferha Farooqui chats to Tim Saunders about Newham and how her timescapes record important changes in the borough
Making art with science
Science teacher Ben Dobson tells Tim Saunders how he creates art with his microscope, camera and computer and in so doing opens our eyes to a wonderful new world.

Interview with Tim Saunders
Tim Saunders is interviewed about the Creative Coverage exhibition at Ilminster Arts Centre in Ilminster, Somerset from April 19 to May 14, 2022. http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk
Stone carving with Maria Moorhouse
Stone sculptor and carver Maria Moorhouse talks to Tim Saunders about stone, her new project celebrating the intelligence of trees and how relaxing carving can be. http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1273-maria-moorhouse
Dealing with life through sculpture
Multi-award winning sculptor Teresa Wells MRSS talks candidly to Tim Saunders about how channelling her emotions into sculpture has helped her tackle life's great challenges.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1299-teresa-wells-mrss

Watercolours with a message
Liz Chaderton's work often celebrates animals and as a result she feels it incumbent upon her to carefully consider the welfare and environmental issues surrounding her work.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/683-liz-chaderton

Art saved me
It's not too melodramatic to say that, according to photorealist Sarah Graham, who believes that her art rescued her from the bipolar disorder that sectioned her.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1261-sarah-graham
Criticism shapes art but so too do friends
President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Steve Evans tells Tim Saunders how one friend in particular kickstarted his journey into the world of art. Agnes Martin's grid paintings played a part, too.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1168-steve-evans-rbsa
Taking time gets results for Andrew Forkner
It was Andrew's mother-in-law that he thanks for spurring him on his artistic journey.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1293-andrew-forkner

Contemporary Glass Society update
CGS Chair Sue Purser Hope gives an update on the organisation.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/craftspeople/item/691-susan-purser-hope

Colour, contrariness and the excitement of glass
The enthusiasm that Sue Purser Hope (Chair of the Contemporary Glass Society) has for glass is nothing short of contagious. http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/craftspeople/item/691-susan-purser-hope

Painting ephemera
Jill Barthorpe has a strict routine and does not paint to please the buyer
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/321-jill-barthorpe
Episode image: November morning where Jill has painted fog
Birds, aluminium and the RA
Oil painter Tony Feld chats to Tim Saunders about his painting and practice.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1231-tony-feld
Remembering Mieczyslaw Chojko (1919 to 1978)
Mieczyslaw's daughter Magda chats to Tim Saunders about her father and his devotion to art that ultimately cost her parents' marriage. http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1221-mieczyslaw-stanislaw-chojko

All things jewellery with Michele White PPRBSA
Michele White PPRBSA has her gallery and workshop in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. Here she chats to Tim Saunders about what inspires her and her working practice. http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/craftspeople/item/1287-michele-white-rbsa

Mastering art and ceramics
She considers herself "a quiet anarchist" who keeps things simple. In so doing Bronwyn Williams-Ellis RCA lets her work speak for itself. http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/craftspeople/item/208-bronwyn-williams-ellis

Commissions provide a reliable income stream
Successful wildlife artist Richard Whittlestone talks to Tim Saunders about his life as a painter and how his base at the Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire has been a perfect location for him in more ways than one
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/827-richard-whittlestone

Turning art into a business
Jonathan Wheeler talks to Tim Saunders about how he has made art his business
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/365-jonathan-wheeler

Improving one's self through painting
Silvia Pastore chats to Tim Saunders about how art plays a large part in her journey of discovery and how the great Italian painters inspired her as she grew up in Venice
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1191-silvia-pastore

Making a career from art
Successful droplet painter Sarah Pye will explore any opportunity to get her work in front of her buying public; she has even appeared on television
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/571-sarah-pye
Visual elements stir emotions says Wayne Attwood PRBSA
He employs a destructive layering technique even using bathroom squeegees. Francis Bacon, Picasso and Sickert are all inspirations
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/969-wayne-attwood-vprbsa

Construction sites and cranes are inspirational
Linda Saul talks to Tim Saunders about texture and collage in her various watercolour works
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1183-linda-saul
Cornwall, ecology, Buddhism and sculpture
Passion ignites the creative process for the sculptor and painter James Eddy whose landmark work at Heligan is already 10 years old.

Nature, art and public service
The two don't compliment each other whatsover, according to botanical artist and ecologist Sally Pinhey, who could have become an architect but chose social work instead although she has taught art in prison.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/114-sally-pinhey-aoi-sgm

The influence of art history on contemporary art
Rowena Comrie explains to Tim Saunders how art history has guided her on her own unique journey
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/866-rowena-comrie

There's a lot to abstract art, explains Nigel Moores
Nigel Moores talks to Tim Saunders about abstract art and how inspirational meetings with Terry Frost and Howard Hodgkin helped shape his work
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1269-nigel-moores
Nature, Salcombe and dolphins
Maria Ellis talks to Tim Saunders about how nature, Salcombe and dolphins inspire her slightly abstract paintings
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1132-maria-ellis

Geology and geography in landscape paintings
Landscape architect turned painter Roger Griffiths RBSA talks to Tim Saunders about his methodical approach, inspirational artists and his appearance on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2015.
Art in virtual reality
Dr Trudy Barber extols the virtues of virtual reality in the art world. But, she tells Tim Saunders that she is still very much a traditional artist and feels that the two approaches work well together

The attraction of stone
Sculptor Ann Coomber explains why she is passionate about stone to Tim Saunders.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1170-ann-coomber

The warmth of glass blowing... and engraving
British born Dominic Fondé FGE ARMS chats to Tim Saunders about glassblowing and engraving and how he ended up in Japan.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/craftspeople/item/1267-dominic-fonde-fgge-arsmpsg

Being out of your comfort zone creates the best art
So says the award winning sculptor Liz Watts, who likes to make her life as difficult as possible but it pays off she tells Tim Saunders
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/341-liz-watts
The joy of screenprinting
Anthony Hopkinson extolls the virtues of screenprinting
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1257-anthony-hopkinson
Art embraces health changes
For many years Marilyn Ewens has painted landscapes, especially of Somerset where she has lived for over 40 years. But now her health presents challenges and she explains to Tim Saunders how her work is adapting.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/82-marilyn-ewens
Travel inspires landscape paintings
Charles Jamieson chats to Tim Saunders about painting and acting. He shares useful advice for those starting their careers as artists

The allure of hand building ceramics
David Roberts has been hand building for over 40 years and he chats to Tim Saunders about what appeals to him about this process
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/craftspeople/item/1249-david-roberts
Landscapes and portraiture with Joanna Commings
Joanna Commings chats to Tim Saunders about light and when to finish a painting as well as the important part that eggs and melons play when learning portraiture.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1070-joanna-commings

Collagraphs and the Tin Coast, Cornwall
Eric Pentecost talks to Tim Saunders about the collagraph process, how he became an artist and what he's working on at the moment.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/587-eric-pentecost

Art is therapy for an accountant, says Gerry Defries
Gerry Defries talks to Tim Saunders about his landscape and seascape paintings.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/210-gerry-defries
Working on film sets started Adam Warwick Hall's sculpture journey
Adam chats to Tim Saunders about sculpture and his journey from working in films such as Star Wars and 101 Dalmatians to where he is today.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/735-adam-warwick-hall

An artist's life
The artist Wendy Clouse chats to Tim Saunders about her life and work. One thing Wendy did during lockdown was to paint the portraits of 2 NHS doctors, requested by Instagram.
http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/1112-wendy-clouse

Pop artist Richard Blacklaw-Jones
The premier Welsh pop artist Richard Blacklaw-Jones talks to Tim Saunders
The world has changed for professional photographers
Nigel Hudson talks about how the world is different for professional photographers now.