THE PODCASTS

START MAKING MODERN ART: THE SO NELLA PODCASTS

Two artists, Celia Hemken and Nella Lush www.nellalush.com talk about opening up making art for anyone with the desire. How to free yourself from an emphasis on technique by finding a way into expressing yourself and what you might discover on the way.

#1 Wanting To Paint Gets The Best Of You

2 Artists: Celia Hemken and Nella Lush talk about entry points to bypass judgement, inhibition and about not having confidence. Worrying about technique. That life makes the art. Whether mistakes are mistakes. Close up and far away can change what you’re making. Paintings paint themselves.
www.nellalush.com

Painting: Prima Vera by Nella Lush

Starting, what’s in between and when it ends. Knowing when a painting is finished. Parameters of emptiness and fullness. Being allowed to paint. This is all so fun. Fast and slow painting. When it’s done it keeps on painting without you.
Celia Hemken www.celiahemken.com
Nella Lush www.nellalush.com
Drawing: Spiral by Celia Hemken

UNDERSTAND MODERN ART BY MAKING IT: THE FROZEN PRINCES AND ABSTRACT BABIES PODCASTS

#1 So I Was Sobbing In An Art Gallery

First of a series about understanding modern art by making it yourself. This episode is about how when you start making art yourself you realise that you become more sensitised to the world and that’s a wonderful thing even if you end up sobbing in an art gallery with security looking on.(*_+).

#2 Back Behind Above And Below Beyond_Part 1

About how a particular piece of art can contain so many meanings and layers, what Pareidolias are and how art emerges from the imagination and memory. Also I’m revealing how the materials for making art can be invented, appearing by accident and how something you make can be so childlike, so innocent, but contain profound universal themes.

#3 Back Behind Above And Below Beyond_Part 2

About how art contains ideas of a human being’s place in space, geometry, what the Voyager I & II missions mean for art – what verticals and horizontals, above and below in art signify, about leaving the past behind and using art to face the uncertainty of the future as well as discovering things about yourself you never knew, about how art is making your own Golden Record to be remembered by.

#4 Frozen Princes

This episode is about you accessing your imagination and starting to make your own marks on paper as an entry point to your own creativity by short circuiting the rational, logical side of the brain. How a finished piece of art is a freeze frame of a process, where making art started for me and sleeping in the closet for the sake of art.

#5 Abstract Babies

In this episode I’m expanding on a painting/drawing technique accessing the imagination and subconscious as discussed in Episode #4. I’m also describing the non-verbal language of abstraction observed in babies experimenting with their physical world, why they are compelled to do it as are artists.

#6 Immersion And Jumps

Talking more about the spontaneous, free approach to painting as described in Episode #4 and the problem of how important technical proficiency is in art/creativity versus a more intimate, authentic and original search for expression where technique occurs as a by-product rather than the focus.

#7 The Language Of Colour

Describing how I can’t laugh at films spoofing the pretentious language of the Artworld anymore. How the language of colour forms when you immerse yourself in playing with colour – how relationships emerge between colours, their place on the spectrum, the physics of colour, how your personal palette shows up clearly applying colour, notions of harmony and dissonance in colour and questions of what constitutes ugly and beautiful colour.

#8 Turns Out My Autistic Sister Is A Conceptual Artist

Understanding Autism through making art, my sister’s innate sense of lines and curves which are the intrinsic language of the universe, the pleasurable sensation of movement, filling space and emptying it, my Synaesthesia. Words are pictures and we are all living, breathing, moving paintings and drawings.

#9 Fractals And Our Future

Countering artistic self-doubt with insights that whatever we produce being a fractal automatically encapsulates the whole, the difficulty of an effortless stream of production v. its evaluation of quality. The connections between art/creativity and culture/civilisations and the future of our species, maintaining our connection with animal instincts, natural cycles and the Prime creativity in Nature as Robotics becomes ever more a reality.