Nordic Art Agency Podcast

Catherine Ludeau is a French abstract artist who works within a minimalist style in resin on canvas. Her career as a designer and artist has spanned over many decades and has evolved in recent years to a pure reduction of natural elements informed by the practice of Zen, repetition and instinctive emotional responses. Currently in her studio in Paris, Catherine shares her painting process and how...

In this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast we are in conversation with Munich based abstract artist Frederic Paul.  We signed Frederic Paul to the Nordic Art Agency Gallery in 2018 having connected with his whimsical, emotive paintings with tonal graduation and elements of layered three-dimensionality. Heavily influenced by his roots in Asia, Frederic Paul represents a fresh, entrepreneurial...

In this episode, we are in conversation with the young British figurative artist Molly Brocklehurst who is based in South London. Molly graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts in 2019 winning the Wimbledon Alumni Professional Award and was a finalist in the 2020 Signature Art Prize. She hit the British art scene in brilliant fashion last year being named as one of Saatc...

Simon Gudgeon is one of Britain’s leading contemporary sculptors, possibly best known for the striking three-meter-tall bronze sculpture Serenity which stands on the shores of the Serpentine lake in London’s Hyde Park. His career, in his words, has been "a series of very happy accidents", which has led to his monumental sculpture being featured in prominent international private collecti...

Chelsea Davine is a British abstract artist who, over her twenty-year career, has created a mixed media painting practise which is a pure reflection of nature, balance and light.  She finds inspiration from the coast, the sea, the lines that criss-cross the landscape and mountainscapes. As an artist, she is passionate about the material she obsesses over whether it be metal, oil, gold leaf or line...

Pablo de Gortari is a flamboyant and gregarious figurative contemporary portrait painter from Mexico City. By mixing skills from illustration, animation and painting, his work combines the spontaneity of sketches with the delicacy of painting.  Art for Pablo has always been a way to escape reality and his images and palettes are strongly influenced by fantasy and mythical elements.  The characteri...

Episode 5 of the Nordic Art Agency podcast features gallery Co-Founder and art entrepreneur Mikael Eskilsson.  Mikael, together with his partner Kalle, founded Galleri Lohme a fresh and innovative and contemporary gallery in Sweden. In our conversation, we cover the ever-evolving art industry, art and tech, the benefit of an online Art Academy, striking a balance between the physical and virtual v...

We are celebrating International Women's day and highlighting woman in art this month. This week we are in conversation with art influencer and art dealer Kathlene Fox-Davies. Kathlene is Co-founder and Director of Black Box Projects, a London based contemporary art gallery specialising in photography and process-based photographic works.  She is a photography expert, art historian and curato...

Jo Hummel is a British abstract collage artist whose striking painted collages are both calming and captivating.  In this podcast, we explore Jo Hummel's unique painting practice as she explains the conscious - subconscious dance between motive and colour and what drives her process. We also invite Jo Hummel to discuss Dear Painting , an abstract art exhibition that she has curated featuring...

Clare Celeste Börsch is a collage and paper artist who brings to life exquisite three dimensional installations of flora and fauna.  Her passion for the natural world was sparked by her an extraordinary childhood where she travelled extensively with her parents experiencing first-hand the beauty of rainforests, coral reefs and carpets of butterflies. In this podcast episode, we invite Clare to dis...

Jay Pingree, an American figurative artist from New York, was invited to join the Nordic Art Agency in the Spring of 2019. We were initially drawn to his distorted abstract figures of commuters painted against a minimalist backdrop, which fully captured the perpetual motion and repetitive spirit of the daily commute. We are delighted that Jay has agreed to be the first artist in conversation as th...