The Things That Drive Us

This week a discussion with the Australian potter about her  life and work.

In this episode I talk about whether you are going to take your interests seriously
The book I mention is the war of art:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026
 
To have a look at the work I mentioned go here:  https://www.williamjohnmackenzie.co.uk/gallery.html
 

In this episode I talking about finding your drive and about how I found mine.  A few links for the things I mentioned:
Barrington Barber : Complete Book of Drawing
Hugh Mendes:  https://hughmendes.com/
Turner:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner
Agnes Martin: https://www.moma.org/artists/3787
Sonia Delauney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Delaunay
Paul Nash: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/paul-nash-1690
Artpisration (where I teach): https://www.artspiration.co.uk/

A short solo episode where I muse about what this podcast hopes to achieve.  I hope you enjoy it.

This week I talk to the excellent Paul Wicks.  Paul is a photographer and lecturer at Mid Kent College.  You can see more of Paul's work at his website here:  http://paulwicks.co.uk/
and Mid Kent College is here https://www.midkent.ac.uk/
 
Paul took up photography when recovering from encephalitis.  If you or anyone else you know suffers from this then have a look at the Encephalitis Society: https://www.encephalitis.info/
 
If you would like to find out more about me then my website is: www.williamjohnmackenzie.co.uk

In this episode we talk to Poet, Spoken Word performed and Yoga teacher Amy Dudgeon about her varied practice.  You can find more about Amy here:  https://www.amydudgeon.co.uk/
If you like this episode then check out my website www.williamjohnmackenzie.co.uk
 
 

Rob Leigh is an Role Playing Game (RPG) writer and designer.  You can find out more about him and see his other work here:
 
http://www.isolation-games.co.uk/
http://www.whenthemoonhangslow.co.uk/ - this is Rob's latest game and the subject of his kickstarter campagin we talk about in the pod.  I highly recomment you check it out.
The two artists we discuss in the show are Omercan: https://www.artstation.com/sleepingrobot
and Gabriel https://www.artstation.com/gcm_94
 
Please also have a look at my website https://www.williamjohnmackenzie.co.uk/

In this episode I am talking to Matt Pennington of Profound Decisions (https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/)  the mastermind around the Live Action Roleplaying system - Empire.
 
If you want to know more about Live Action Roleplaying have a look here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game

This episode we talk to fine artist Ellie Verrechia about her art practice.
If you want to know more about Ellie you can visit her website:  https://www.ellieverrecchia.co.uk/
 
Or her instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ellieverrecchia_artist/
 

A chat about art and faith with London based, Scottish born contempory artists Alastair Gordon  (https://www.alastairjohngordon.com/)  co chair of Morphe Arts (https://www.morphearts.org/)