Welcome back to another podcast chatting to artists about their life and work! This time I’m talking to a young, local-to-me artist called Charlie, aka Howler Productions. We chat all things to do with finding your style and your voice, finding an audience and feeling free to express your true self. We also chat about the fact that Charlie has his first ever art exhibition coming up, and how he’s been preparing for that.

We chat a lot about Charlie’s influences in this episode, and I think a lot of them will be things many people aren’t familiar with, so here are a few links to explore as well.

First up, a good overview of the amazing Czech animator we discuss,

Jan Swankmajer: https://youtu.be/OwwGw01kEbM?si=0HKV2udS6mtFTfuw

Oh, also Charlie’s own award winning animation (TW Suicide themes): https://youtu.be/dDllY3abNE0?si=fcexKeQ78pa8ZKIk

Charlie’s artist picks:

@dont_jinxit

@jayrnski

@awdtwit

@eddyatoms

@donavantheraccoon

@frambuesa_st

and finally, the film by our mate Mickey Murray:

Mind Set movie: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Set-Eilis-Cahill/dp/B0CJLZ2FX7

Enjoy listeners!

Thanks as always to Michael Kheng for tech support.

After a bit of a delay, due to extreme busyness on my part, Indigo Artists is back, with our first ever man! Peterborough based artist and all round lovely human Tony Nero. He and I chat about his very diverse artistic practise, whether you need to define what kind of artist you are, plus he reveals a shocking Goya fact! (possibly) We also get into how some good friends encouraged Tony out of his artistic comfort zone and opened up some exciting new opportunities for him, and the extra responsibility of being a role model in the community as an artist of colour. Give it a listen - lots of great stuff here.

Sorry for the slightly less than ideal sound on this one - I’m still learning as I go!

Check out Tony’s art on Instagram: @artoftonynero

As always, check out our gallery on Instagram: @indigocrow gallery, and me, your host here: @hannahabstracts.

You can also find lots of info about upcoming exhibitions at the gallery on our website: www.indigocrowgallery.com

Thanks as always to Michael Kheng for tech support.

After a brief hiatus due to crazy busy lives all round, the podcast that chats to artists is back! This time we have the fabulous Lucy McElroy - a former art teacher turned full time portrait artist. I went out to speak to Lucy in her gorgeous garden studio in a village just outside Lincoln, where we were only slightly disturbed by her lovely dog Coco!

Lucy takes us through the process of working on amazing commissions of people’s loved ones, how she handles the intense pressure to create an exact likeness of the clients nearest and dearest, and what she likes to work on when she isn’t making art to others very specific requirements.

Lucy’s exhibition at Indigo Crow gallery will run from July 8th-20th, all the details on our website - www.indigocrowgallery.com.

Lucy’s work can be found on Instagram: @lucy.mcelroy.artist or on her website: www.lucymcelroy.co.uk.

If you want to check out my work, I hang out here: @hannahasbtarcts.

Enjoy!

Thanks as always to Michael Kheng and once again Mel Langton rode to the rescue with some crucial tech support! Thanks guys!