Friday Feature Artist
Each week, we sit down with some of the world’s most talented and successful artists and share the stories that have influenced their creative journeys. From their earliest experiments to their most impactful works, you’ll discover the processes and philosophies that have shaped their art.
Whether you’re a practicing artist, a craft enthusiast, or simply captivated by the beauty of mixed media art, we invite you to join us on this exclusive peek inside the world of our amazing feature artists.
Tune in to inspire your imagination, connect with our global artist community, and enjoy some fabulous art banter.
Episodes
53 episodes
Claire Benn: When handwriting becomes texture
In this episode, Claire Benn joins Deborah White to reflect on handwriting as an expressive, material practice. Working across ink, paper and textiles, Claire speaks about text as mark, texture and gesture rather than language. The conversation...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:21:14
Angela Truscott: a new Take Two chapter
As a new brand (and new era!) of the business begins, founder Angela Truscott speaks to Creative Director Jo Wright about building an inclusive creative community rooted in education, quality, and care. Angela shares the personal and profession...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:25:39
From the archives: Bryony Jennings on embracing the fray
From her studio on the Hampshire coast, textile sculptor Bryony Jennings stitches soulful creatures from vintage cloth, forgotten buttons and timeworn threads. In this thoughtful conversation, Bryony reflects on the slow magic of her making pro...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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1:19:02
From the archives: Marian Jazmik finds beauty in the everyday
Marian Jazmik is a UK-based textile artist known for her inventive mixed media sculptures inspired by nature’s quiet details. In this conversation, Marion shares how retirement became her creative beginning, why texture speaks louder than colou...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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1:18:27
From the archives: Olga Radionova sculpts softness and strength
Ukrainian artist Olga Radionova transforms wood, metal and textiles into sculptural works that explore strength, vulnerability and rebirth. From soft sculptures to weapon remnants reborn as flowers, Olga’s practice is both a tactile celebration...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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1:04:25
From the archives: Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn listen to land and respond in textile
What does it mean to know a place? For textile artists Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn, it begins with walking, listening, collecting – and letting the land leave its mark. In this rare and intimate conversation across three continent...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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45:39
From the archives: Sandra Meech stitches landscapes
Canadian-born artist Sandra Meech blends photography, painting, and stitch to tell layered stories of landscape, memory and climate. Drawing from Arctic expeditions and the flooded fields of Somerset, her work reveals what lies beneath – from m...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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1:38:05
From the archives: Sally Hirst turns memory into material
Painter, printmaker and educator Sally Hirst brings a fearless, can-do spirit to her richly layered abstractions. Guided by memory, material and the textures of the urban environment, Sally’s work is an evolving conversation between painting, p...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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45:08
Lissy and Rudi are crocheting joy
Lissy and Rudi Cole are collaborative fibre artists, visionaries and partners in life and art. Guided by aroha, whakapapa and a bold creative spirit, they transform simple crochet into monumental public artworks. In this intimate episode, th...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:21:40
Simone Elizabeth Saunders creates soft textures with strong messages
Through the vivid language of punch needle tapestry, Simone Elizabeth Saunders reclaims and reimagines Western art histories. A Canadian artist of Jamaican and African descent, Simone weaves narratives of Black womanhood, liberation and ancestr...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:12:37
Dana Falcini sculpts the cycle of life
Sculptor and installation artist Dana Falcini works with organic materials – from fish skin and feathers to human hair and bone – to create sculptural forms rich with emotion and meaning. In this reflective conversation, Dana shares how time aw...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:01:43
Coulter Fussell on quilts and play
Mississippi-based artist Coulter Fussell turns donated, discarded, and once-loved textiles into exuberant, improvisational quilts that carry memory, conflict, beauty, and joy. From river towns to war zones, soft sculpture to Snapchat videos, Co...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:01:13
Jacki Barklie on resisting perfection
From painting flower power on her father’s car to water blasting antique linens in her New Zealand studio, fibre artist Jacki Barklie has never been one to follow rules. In this episode, Jacki explores scale, resistance, and identity in her ric...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:00:00
Helen Geglio and the quiet strength of cloth
American textile artist Helen Geglio creates layered, hand-stitched works that explore memory, motherhood and the quiet power of cloth. Blending the intimacy of collage with the discipline of quilting, her art reflects years of teaching,...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:06:41
Carlie Trosclair casts time and place
Artist Carlie Trosclair casts the world in latex, capturing the skins of old buildings, staircases, and trees to reveal stories embedded in their structure. Drawing on architecture, memory and place, Carlie’s work invites us to think about home...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:08:53
Tina Marais is starting a Soft Revolution
Internationally acclaimed textile artist Tina Marais invites us into her sculptural world, where memory, material and meaning are intimately stitched together. From community to creative courage, this conversation explores Tina’s poetic practic...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:21:22
From the archives: Layered histories with Rebecca Crowell
Painter, writer and educator Rebecca Crowell has helped redefine how artists engage with cold wax medium. In this conversation, Rebecca reflects on abstraction, intuition, and the layered histories that lie beneath a painting’s surface. For art...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:07:24
From the archives: Inky impressions with Sue Brown
British printmaker Sue Brown invites us into a richly textured world of birds, sheds and story-filled sketchbooks. Working primarily with collograph printmaking, Sue transforms humble materials into layered works that celebrate the natural worl...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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43:28
From the archives: Pattern, chance, and cloth with Matthew Harris
British artist Matthew Harris brings cloth and paper to life through a process that blends structure, chance, and rhythm. Drawing from a background in drawing and a deep reverence for materials, Matthew shares how intuition, repetition, and con...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:21:55
From the archives: Layers of observation with Tansy Hargan
UK artist Tansy Hargan brings her background in architecture and landscape design into a vibrant mixed-media practice. From tiny thumbnail sketches to layered textiles, she explores colour, sound, and place with a rare attentiveness. In this th...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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49:37
From scraps to sculpture with Phong Chi Lai
Quilt artist and soft sculptor Phong Chi Lai brings a fashion background, a deep respect for upcycled textiles, and a maker’s intuition to his vibrant, tactile world of improv patchwork. From childhood days in a clothing factory to natural dyei...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:08:00
Symbolic stitching with Tessa Perlow and Fleur Woods
What happens when two kindred spirits in stitch meet across the globe? In this rich conversation, embroidery artists Tessa Perlow and Fleur Woods delve into their shared love of beading, symbolism, and slow making. From creative rituals to pers...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:28:17
Kelp, colour and wild fibre with Lydia Miller
Lydia Miller weaves with the wild. From ocean-foraged kelp to antlers, sticks and horsehair, her sculptural fibre works are shaped as much by intuition as by ecology. In this episode, Lydia shares how place, process and material co-create her a...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:06:41
The humanity in handwriting with Rosalind Wyatt
Textile artist and calligrapher Rosalind Wyatt works at the poetic intersection of word and cloth. From hand-stitched handwriting to garments that carry memory, her work honours the ‘quiet voice’ people leave behind. In this moving studio inter...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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39:50
Abstraction, Intuition, and Reinvention in Art with Monica Rezman
From classical painting to intuitive abstraction, Monica Rezman’s journey spans decades, disciplines, and dimensions. Working between Chicago and Mexico, Monica creates sculptural paintings and fabric-covered forms that explore memory, movement...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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55:44
