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Ask an Artist - Interview with Bernard Derriotte of Mesh Art Gallery, Chicago

Ask An Artist - June 18, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this episode of Ask an Artist our two artists: Peter and Laura are talking to Bernard Derroitte whose gallery: Mesh, based in Chicago has Laura on it's books.  The print market in America is weighted towards 'Print Fairs' so the current situation has meant some adaptation.  Bernard's insights...

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Ask an Artist - Open Studios part two

Ask An Artist - June 11, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Following on from last week's episode Laura and Peter continue their discussion about Open Studios or Art Weeks events.  Whether you are just starting on your art career or are established in your practice opening up your studio space, or joining a group of other artists in a shared space gives ...

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Ask an Artist - Open Studios part one

Ask An Artist - June 04, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Refreshed and back from their brief break Peter and Laura are both taking part in Bucks Art Weeks during June.  Local Art Weeks, or Open Studios events are one of the best ways to start interacting with the public.  Whilst the exact format differs depending on where you are they offer an opportu...

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Ask an Artist - Interview with Sal Shuel, Coipyright expert - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - May 28, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - Finding Your Style - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - May 21, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - The Artist's Pesona - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - May 14, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - Keeping a Sketchbook - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - May 07, 2021 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - Creative Block - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - April 30, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - Writing as Part of your Practice - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - April 23, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist -Pricing your Work - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - April 16, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - Photographing Your Work - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - April 09, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - Interview Michael Harding - a splash of colour from our archive

Ask An Artist - April 02, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
For a couple of months the Ask an Artist Team are taking a break from recording to concentrate on other things that need to be done: On-line teaching and book writing both have deadlines that cannot be put off!  While we are away  we have selected some episodes from our archive, if you have alre...

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Ask an Artist - Listener Questions 7

Ask An Artist - March 26, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In another of their popular Listener Questions episodes Peter and Laura discuss how to wrap paintings and works on paper to send them to customers, wether you should, if asked, trim your work to have a different amount of border and if you should take up art as a second career?

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Ask an Artist - Signing your work

Ask An Artist - March 19, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this episode Laura and peter talk about the tricky subject of signing your work.  Their different genres have different conventions and getting it right so that you fulfil the conventions and your own aesthetic ideas and the need to let your public know that this is your work.  There's more t...

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Ask an Artist - Having an On-Line Exhibition

Ask An Artist - March 12, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
After a year of cancelled shows, fairs and other events it would seem that the people (craetive ones) that have fared best are those that have come up with their own solutions to their lack of places to sell their work.  In this episode Laura talks to Peter about the online show he had late last...

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Ask an Artist - Developing Different Styles

Ask An Artist - March 05, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
If you make your living as an artist then having a style that people recognise can help in several ways, it's easier to deal with galleries if they know what to expect, your customer base too likes to recognise your work amongst others and if you are building a 'brand' then your identity is cent...

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Ask an Artist - Titling Your work

Ask An Artist - February 26, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this episode Peter and Laura discuss some of the issues that arise from putting a title on the masterpiece you have just created.  Is it necessary, will it make a difference to whether it will sell, or what people will think of it.  It's not always easy to find the title that is going to fit ...

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Ask an Artist - Other People's Podcasts

Ask An Artist - February 19, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Strange as it may seem when Laura and Peter are not recording this podcast they are not sat in their studios listening over and over to previous episodes!  However they both like to listen to podcasts and in this episode they chat about which ones they favour.

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Ask an Artist - Listener Questions 6

Ask An Artist - February 12, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
This episode of Ask an Artist is another opportunity for listeners to pose questions to Perter and Laura.  Today the questions cover some of the tricky things that you need to consider if you are a printmaker taking on a commission, some of the things that you should consider when you are buying...

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Ask an Artist - Stamina

Ask An Artist - February 05, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Becoming a successful artist is not a sprint, it's a marathon.  Laura and Peter chat in this episode about the various things that you need a bit of stamina for is for want to make it as an artist.

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Ask an Artist - Interview with Dr Robert Travers

Ask An Artist - January 29, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this episode Laura and Peter are delighted to welcome Dr Robert Travers whose gallery in Holland Park in London is currently hosting - Online - a Ben Nicholson exhibition.   However, the main topic of conversation is the 'Ruth Borchard Collection' a stellar collection of 20th century self por...

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Ask an Artist - COVID-19 , How it has affected Peter and Laura

Ask An Artist - January 22, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Making a podcast about the business of being an artist we did not imagine having to make episodes about global pandemics, but here we are, 10 months on - How has the pandemic affected us and how have we steered our businesses through these difficult times?

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Ask an Artist - Interview with Jurgita Galbraith of Birchtree Gallery in Edinburgh

Ask An Artist - January 15, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
This is the second part of Peter and Laura's discussion with Jurgita Galbraith whose Gallery: Birchtree Gallery, in Dundas Street Edinburgh specialises in work on paper alongside applied craft.  This podcast focusses on the relationship between the gallery and the artist during and after an exhi...

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Ask an Artist - Interview with Jurgita Galbraith of Birchtree Gallery

Ask An Artist - January 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this episode Laura and Peter are talking to Jurgita Galbraith who has a gallery in Dundas Street in Edinburgh. There was so much good material in the interview that we have split this into two episodes, in this first part the discussion is about building a relationship with a gallery, what th...

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Ask an Artist - Thankfulness and New Year's Resolutions

Ask An Artist - January 01, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this episode of Ask an Artist Peter and Laura talk about some of the things that they feel thankful for, and what their New Year's resolutions are. 

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Ask an Artist - Christmas greetings 2020

Ask An Artist - December 25, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
No real advice this week, other than that you should take the day off! Please note we recorded this episode at a time when both the Keegans and the Boswells had expected to be getting together with select members of their respective families which was reflected in what we said.  As we upload th...

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Ask an Artist - Listener Questions 5

Ask An Artist - December 18, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Have you ever struggled to find inspiration?  Have you had anxiety trying to figure out what kind of printing press to buy?  Have you wandered if the degree you worked so hard to get will be respected (or if you should have gone to art school rather than making your own way into art)? Peter and ...

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Ask an Artist - Interview with Keith Brymer Jones - Part 2

Ask An Artist - December 11, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this second part of our interview with potter Keith Brymer Jones Laura and Peter are focussing more on Keith's role as a judge on Channel Four's 'Great Pottery Throwdown' and also on his involvement in developing a new type of qualification for crafts at Schools level

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Ask an Artist - Interview with Keith Brymer Jones

Ask An Artist - December 11, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this second part of our interview with potter Keith Brymer Jones Laura and Peter are focussing more on Keith's role as a judge on Channel Four's 'Great Pottery Throwdown' and also on his involvement in developing a new type of qualification for crafts at Schools level

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Ask an Artist - Interview with Keith Brymer Jones - Part 1

Ask An Artist - December 04, 2020 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
In this episode of Ask an Artist Laura and Peter talk to Keith Brymer Jones.  Keith is probably best known as a judge on The Channel Four programme on TV: The Great Pottery Throwdown, but that will have to wait for next week.  This week the discussion is about how Keith became a potter, how, as ...

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