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Ask An Artist - A Conversation With Printmaker Lucy Rodgers

2026-11-0437:44

Join Lisa Takahashi in South Somerset for a studio visit with printmaker Lucy Rodgers, exploring how personal stories, everyday objects, and the reduction linocut process shape Lucy’s colourful, expressive prints. Lucy discusses her journey from sculpture to screen printing to relief printmaking, how painting and sketchbook drawings help her develop ideas, and the challenges and creative possibilities of reduction linocut. She shares how sentimental objects, family memories, and the South Dow...

Rivalries and Friendships in Art History - Labille-Guiard and Vigée Le Brun

2026-10-2841:281

Four women a year were accepted into the Académie in the late 18th century, and in 1783 they admitted two of the most sought-after painters in Paris. They were portrayed as rivals to a captive public, but who pitted these artists against each other? In this episode, we discuss the lives and careers of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. We delve into their contributions to Rococo and Neoclassicism, the context of their era for women artists in France, and their proximi...

The Matter of Colour - Prussian Blue, the Birth of a Modern Blue

2026-10-2121:05

An accidental discovery in a Berlin laboratory found its way into Rococo paintings and Japanese woodblock prints. How did this colour travel so far, and what made it different from earlier blues? Evie Hatch traces the story of Prussian Blue, from eighteenth-century Europe to Japan’s nineteenth-century “blue revolution”. She explores its unusual chemistry, remarkably modern marketing campaign and early problems with fading, and asks why it is often called the first modern synthetic pigment. Th...

Ask An Artist - A Weekend at Spike Print Fair, from Studio to Stand

2026-10-1444:01

What does it take to get a printmaker’s work from the studio to a busy art fair? Lisa Takahashi takes listeners behind the scenes, from planning and preparation to setting up a stand and hearing from fellow exhibitors. In this episode, Lisa shares the realities of preparing for an art fair as a printmaker, including selecting and transporting original prints, framing and presentation, setting up a display, pricing artwork, and talking to visitors. Recorded at the Spike Print Fair at Spi...

Introducing The Jackson's Art Podcast

2026-10-0720:09

The Jackson’s Art Podcast explores what it means to make art through the voices of established artists and the materials they use. Every month, we share stories and expertise from those who create, be they contemporary artists or historical figures. To encourage curiosity and invite dialogue, we take listeners out of the gallery and into the spaces where art is made, shaped, and brought to life. In this first episode of Jackson’s Art Podcast, hosts Lisa Takahashi, Evie Hatch, and Louise Reyno...

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