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Susan Gunn: Can you give me a brief background to your life and how you became an artist please, Andrew? Andrew Crane: My dad would sit me on his knee and say ‘What shall we draw?’ I would try and think of something really tricky, but was always amazed at the life-like result! This was…

Katherine Russell: What led you initially to working with these ancient/traditional processes? Susan Gunn: During my foundation year at Norwich University of the Arts I was interested in historic methods and traditional ways of working. I began experimenting, working from recipes and formulas from the Ralph Mayer Artists Handbook,[i] the purported Artists Bible. I had…

Marguerite Horner: Right, how do you start a painting Katherine? Katherine Russell: Basically I have a lot of different source material that I gather, so I have loads of photographic material, piles and piles of it and I tend to work thematically. So, at the moment I am looking at ‘Filmic’ and so I have…

Claudia Böse: Why the title ‘Through each Today’ for this show? You have got interesting titles for your work generally. Why the title ‘Through each Today’? Can you say more? Marguerite Horner: I had this tune going on in my head and it was a song that we used to sing in kindergarten. I went…

Matthew Krishanu: Claudia, I guess the first thing is why ‘idiom two’? What does it mean in relation to the paintings? Claudia Böse: Yes. It is quite a complex word ‘idiom’. I wrote down a nice definition for myself to read out to you and then take it from there. (reading out) For me “idiom…

Simon Carter: The paintings on the walls to me – I’m going to take this from sort of like the base point – because I do know quite a bit about your work – but I’ll take from a base point – to me they look like those kind of photographs you find in a…

Nicholas Middleton: When I was looking at your work earlier today in preparation, it seemed to me that all your work is dedicated to landscape and I wondered if you had any thoughts on what landscape actually means in the contemporary world, if that’s not too big a question? Simon Carter: That’s a really interesting…

Barbara Peirson: So Nick, I didn’t really know anything about you and your work until I was coming here on the train and I looked you up and so I’m now full of curiosity and maybe a good place to start is at the beginning. It would be great to know how you became a…

Simon Carter: The first thing I would like to ask you is whether you have seen the Alfred Wallis show at the Art Exchange at Essex University? Barbara Peirson: Yes I have. SC: Do you think there are things in Alfred Wallis that inform what you do? BP: Absolutely, there’s no doubt about that. SC:…