I wrap up series one with a 'best of' style look at some of the things that I have learnt in my podcast journey over the last few months. Listen to some of the best bits and reflect on how the experience of these successful artists can be helpful to all.

Series 2 will start in the Autumn of 2024, keep a look out for dates and details.

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Thom studied Fine Art at the University of Brighton, graduating in 2009. A lot of the time focusing on portraiture and drawing inspiration from 1980s pop culture (think Murder she Wrote, The Golden Girls, Dynasty). Thom I also explores landscapes and works predominantly in oil.

In March 2017, he was commissioned by ArtFund and the Jewish Museum London to create a large scale drawing which formed a crucial part of the Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait exhibition. He has created work for arts venues in the South East, London galleries and international clients, and in 2019, designed the Family Trail for Hastings Contemporary Gallery.

Alongside writer John Murray, Thom co-created and co-curated Celebrate the Mountains, a monthly arts and creative writing newsletter sent straight to your email. You can sign up here.

His first solo show, Untitled (Miss. Ms. Other), was hosted by St Mary in the Castle's Crypt Gallery in April 2017, and in 2018 the exhibition, You are an Ocean and I am a Living Thing, was at the Poetry Society in Covent Garden, London in 2018.

In 2021 Thom participated in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year having his portrait selected by celebrity sitter, actress Lydia West.

In 2023 his solo exhibition 'Why I long to be a sex symbol' took place at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. A collection of 12 brand new oil paintings it explores the liminal space between a celebrity's private and public personas captured in paparazzi photographs from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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Ellie Kerr-Smiley is a UK-based portrait artist whose work focuses on the depiction of women and the reclamation of the gaze. Using images of women in her life, other working artists or images that are submitted to her, Ellie’s work aims to propel every-day women into the spotlight. Her work plays with the balance between traditional portraiture and abstraction, creating portraits that tell a story – or perhaps conceal one. Ellie has come from a non-traditional artist’sbackground, having had no formal arts education or training, her work is spontaneous and unplanned, having spilled out of her after many years of working in offices. In late 2020, she picked up her paints again after almost ten years of sitting in a box and began painting incessantly. Less than a year later, she had grown a following on Instagram, taken a residency position at the arts centre The Base and began working as an artist full-time. Her work has since been exhibited and sold at The Contemporary Art Fair, the Insight Exhibition, and through her open access studio and website. Ellie is passionate about keeping the art space accessible and helping others.

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