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People Painting

People Painting

Connor Dillman 22 Episodes Jul 13, 2026

People Painting is a conversational podcast hosted by Connor Dillman. Each episode features discussions with painters about their work, creative process, and perspectives on art. The show offers an intimate look at the people behind the canvas and the ideas that drive their practice.

Episodes

22. Jay Slyce
22. Jay Slyce Jul 13, 2026 01:06:13 Artist Jay Slyce talks about erasure in painting as it relates to history, spiraling one’s practice toward possibility, exposing real-time decision making through the work, and more.Jay Slyce (b. 2001, Hackney, London) is a British-American artist based in London. He completed his MA at the Royal College of Art in 2024, and his BA at Leeds Arts University in 2023. He works across media engaging bo
21. Jake Lamerton
21. Jake Lamerton May 3, 2026 00:54:42 Artist Jake Lamerton talks about the depopulation taking place in his work, painting the air between body and object, the value of forgetting in his process, and more.Jake Lamerton (b.1994, Canterbury) lives and works in London.His practice has been an investigation into Kent as a site of political, historical and autobiographical resonance. His recent work pulls away from the specificity of this
20. Eva Dixon
20. Eva Dixon Mar 17, 2026 00:49:13 Artist Eva Dixon talks about the sophistication of not understanding while making, the potency of found imagery, how our culture is shaping the difference between being seen and being looked at, and more.Eva Dixon (b. 2000) is an Australian artist living in London. Dixon’s practice, spanning assemblage, sculpture and painting, explores homo-eroticism in sport and porn, the space race, lesbianism a
19. Sebastián Espejo
19. Sebastián Espejo Feb 1, 2026 00:42:45 Artist Sebastián Espejo talks about observational shifts between scene and surface, how multiple temporalities accumulate in his paintings, receptiveness versus modulation in his process, and more.Sebastián Espejo (b. 1990) is a Chilean artist based in London whose practice centres on painting as a form of attention. His work explores the language of painting through close observation of the natur
18. Edith Dormandy
18. Edith Dormandy Nov 24, 2025 00:56:30 Artist Edith Dormandy talks about specificity, honoring visually led impulses, exploring the shifting relationship between language and experience through painting, and more.Edith is a London-based artist with a classical training. She graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2024 where she was supported by the Vice Chancellor's Achievement Award and where she won the
17. Olivia van Kuiken
17. Olivia van Kuiken Oct 14, 2025 00:46:40 Artist Olivia van Kuiken discusses intentional misdirection, how she is thinking about language through painting, engaging with the architectural element of her work, and more. This conversation is concerned primarily with the work in her recent show “Bastard Rhyme” at Matthew Brown Gallery in New York.Olivia van Kuiken (b. 1997 in Chicago, Illinois) is a New York based artist. She received a BFA
16. Gavin Gleeson
16. Gavin Gleeson Sep 15, 2025 00:55:35 Artist Gavin Gleeson talks about his really good titles, wearing ideas like loose garments while painting, aiming to be irresponsible in the studio, and a lot more.Gavin Gleeson (b.1995) is an American artist born in Iowa to Irish parents and raised in Kentucky. Now based in London, he holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2024) and a Post-Baccalaureate diploma in Studio Art from
15. Danny Leyland
15. Danny Leyland Aug 4, 2025 00:53:08 Artist Danny Leyland talks about strategies for re-organizing paintings, working towards an archival approach to image-making, how drawing is informing his way forward, and more.Danny Leyland (b.1994) is an artist and educator from Oxford, UK, currently based in London. His practice is led by painting, but also encompasses drawing, printmaking and writing.A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art (20
14. Scarlett Budden
14. Scarlett Budden Jul 3, 2025 00:50:20 Artist Scarlett Budden talks about writing scripts for paintings, staging ideas, how she thinks about surface in relation to her subject matter, and more.Scarlett’s work explores the complexities of spectatorship and the voyeuristic exploits within both cinematic practices and the traditions of figurative painting. The female protagonist occupies theatrical yet ambiguous spaces that collapse the d
13. Gabe Duarte
13. Gabe Duarte Jun 5, 2025 00:51:45 Artist Gabe Duarte talks about reconnecting with their practice in the context of returning to their hometown, their diverse array of technical and mental approaches drawing, community in relation to observation, and more.Gabe Duarte:“My practice is driven by observing objects that are lost, forgotten and the anonymous actions that left them where and how they were found. I’ve been questioning wha
12. Samantha Jackson
12. Samantha Jackson May 25, 2025 00:49:27 Artist Samantha Jackson talks about how her work addresses what she terms “stoppages,” the holistic aspirations of her multidisciplinary practice, making work unconditionally, and more.Samantha’s work is a gestural exploration of everyday life and the relationships that emerge between painting, material and site through making. She paints on found materials using water based pigments that allow th
11. Rita Fernández
11. Rita Fernández May 15, 2025 00:47:32 Artist Rita Fernández talks about making unforgiving paintings, leaning into instinctual forms, how she approaches self-portraiture, and much more.Rita Fernández (b. 1999), is a Mexican artist graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA: Painting). She has a BA in Philosophy from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a background in the film industry.Her work is an exploration of self-portra

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