Ask the artist: 10 questions with Sandra Wyman

Featured image: Not Just DNA by Sandra Wyman. All images used in this article courtesy the artist. Who are you and what do you make or do? Sandra Wyman: maker, artist, political activist, retired teacher, Argentine tango dancer.  Introverted, passionate, bipolar. I make art quilts and mixed media pieces.  I also draw and paint. Who are...

Ask the artist – 10 questions with Geraldine Montgomerie

Who are you and what do you make or do? My name is Geraldine Montgomerie and I am a drawing magpie. Where might we have come across your work before? As a member of the Leeds ‘Sketch That’ drawing club I make an appearance at the annual show and the Leeds Love Arts Festival. I...

Ask the artist: 10 questions with Joe Bean

All photos provided by the artist. All artwork by Joe Bean.Joe Bean is an artist I met through urban sketching with Sketch That, though Joe is a prolific artist and also helps run the much larger and well known Urban Sketchers Yorkshire group. Urban Sketching means drawing from life, in public places like cafes, train...

Ask the artist: 10 questions with Marianne Springham

This interview originally appeared on June 4th 2018 on Helen Dryden's Patreon blog. Marianne Springham is a wonderful artist based in the Yorkshire town of Otley, North West of Leeds. Her practice is multi disciplinary into which she applies a good dollop of humour and surrealism. From an oversized textile sculpture of a human heart...

Ask the artist: 10 questions with Jonathan Hooper

This interview was first published on May 5th 2018 on Helen Dryden's Patreon blog. above: Jonathan in his studio Jonathan Hooper paints Leeds. I first noticed his paintings when I saw he had painted my favourite post war shopping mall in the Northern part of Leeds city centre; the Merrion Centre. The Merrion is infamous...

Ask the artist: 10 questions with Rachael Elwell

This interview was first published on April 15th on Helen Dryden's Patreon blog. Rachael Elwell makes highly detailed line drawings on paper using pencil and ink. The repetitive yet slightly differing marks come together to form a textured plane that is a record of the time and labour expended. Looking at Elwell's hypnotic mark making...

Ask the artist: 10 questions with Phill Hopkins

This interview was first published March 20th 2018 on Helen Dryden's Patreon page. Above - Phill Hopkins at 'X', Left Bank Leeds. This photo and all photos used in this article were taken by Tim Balls. Phill Hopkins first came to my attention when I was browsing Instagram and his 10 year retrospective exhibition 'X'...

Ask the artist: 10 questions with Ian Cockburn

This interview was first published on November 13th 2017 on Helen Dryden's Patreon page. In this series we have a chat with artists and illustrators from Leeds and West Yorkshire, in the hope to spread the word about the good stuff going on in this place. This time artist Ian Cockburn answers the 10 questions....

Ask the artist: 10 questions with Letty McHugh

This interview was first published on 28th September 2017 at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-artist-letty-14540801 In this series of interviews we get to meet local artists whose work I like, and find out what goes on in their world. I became aware of Letty McHugh through twitter,where she is very funny. She writes a blog http://lettymchugh.blogspot.co.uk/ and makes art,...

Ask the Artist – 10 questions with Ravenchilde Illustrations’s Peter Bradley

Thsi interview was first published on August 22nd 2017 at https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-artist-10-13633165 Peter Bradley aka Ravenchilde Illustrations is an artist I met via Facebook group Leeds Illo, a group for illustrators in Leeds. I love his drawings of strong Amazon-esque women and the other-worldly romance of his fantasy art 'Castles and Crusades' work. Peter is a...