Notes On A Painting
Notes On A Painting
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake . Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of paintings will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art.
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May 15, 2026
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Episode 63: Louis Finson, The Four Elements, 1611 15.05.2026 31:47
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a dramatic Caravaggesque work by Louis Finson.
Episode 62: Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628 08.05.2026 32:00
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a religious work by the Spanish Golden Age master, Francisco de Zurbarán.
Episode 61: Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503 01.05.2026 38:23
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week an iconic watercolour work by Albrecht Dürer.
Episode 60: Sarah Miriam Peale, Susan Avery, 1821 17.04.2026 41:33
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a work by the first successful female painter in the USA.
Episode 59: Kamal-ol-Molk, Mirror Hall, 1876 09.04.2026 27:24
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss on of Kamal-ol-Molks most famous works.
Episode 58: Edwin Landseer, Monarch of the Glen, 1851 02.04.2026 32:40
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss the iconic "Monarch of the Glen" by Edwin Landseer.
Episode 57: Fra Angelico, The Mocking of Christ 1441 27.03.2026 32:52
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at one of Fra Angelico's most renown frescos
Episode 56: Judith Leyster, The Happy Couple, 1630 20.03.2026 38:11
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss the Dutch Golden Age painter, Judith Leyster.
Episode 55: Simeon Solomon, Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864 13.03.2026 34:08
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a small watercolour by Simeon Solomon, tackling a controversial subject matter for its time.
Episode 54: Thomas Gainsborough, Cornard Wood, 1748 06.03.2026 36:55
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at an early landscape painting by one of Britain's greatest landscape painters Thomas Gainsborough.
Episode 53: Bartholomaeus Spranger, Hermaphroditus and the Nymph, 1580-82 27.02.2026 36:11
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at a work depicting one of Ovids Metamorphoses.
Episode 52: Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass (Crawford Notch), 1839 19.02.2026 36:11
Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art . This week we look at one of American artist, Thomas Cole's greatest paintings.
Episode 51: Mansur, Turkey c.1612 13.02.2026 28:12
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a miniature painting by the master of nature, Mansur.
Episode 50: Michaelina Wautier, Two Girls as Saints Agnes and Dorothy c. 1655 06.02.2026 29:49
Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art . This week we look at the mysterious artist Michaelina Wautier, who had her first ever major retrospective almost 400 years a...
Episode 49: Rosa Bonheur, Ploughing in the Nivernais, 1849 05.12.2025 43:53
Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art . This week, the monumental painting "Ploughing in the Nivernais" by Rosa Bonheur.
Episode 48: Joaquín Sorolla, The Daughters of Rafael Errázuriz 1897 28.11.2025 31:43
Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched . Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week an unusual Sorolla work, The Daughters of Rafael Errázuriz.
Episode 47: Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435 21.11.2025 40:10
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at Rogier van der Weyden's iconic "The Descent from the Cross"
Episode 46: Winslow Homer, The Fox Hunt 1893 14.11.2025 35:38
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at "The Fox Hunt" by revered American painter Winslow Homer.
Episode 45 : Jean Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, c. 1769 07.11.2025 40:39
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week, a work by Fragonard, which is notable for its loose style and the questions surrounding its sitter.
Episode 44: Unknown Artist, The Rainbow Portrait, 1600/1602 31.10.2025 36:52
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a mysterious painting of Queen Elizabeth 1st and its unknown author.
Episode 43: Karin Bergöö Larsson, Pierre Louis Alexandre, 1879-80 17.10.2025 40:20
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at a painting by Karin Bergöö Larsson from her time at art school in Stockholm.
Episode 42: Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi, Moonlit Night on the Dneiper, 1880 10.10.2025 29:35
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss 'Moonlit Night on the Dneiper" an incredble work by 'the master of light'.
Episode 41: Mihr Ali, Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Standing, c.1809 03.10.2025 29:38
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a large, full length portrait of Fath Ali Shah, ruler of Qajar Iran.
Episode 40: Rachel Ruysch, An Arrangement of Flowers by a Tree Trunk, c.1683 26.09.2025 35:25
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss an early Rachel Ruysch painting that resides in the Kelvingrove, Glasgow.
Episode 39: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dudley, Worcestershire, c. 1830-5. 19.09.2025 35:51
Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a watercolour of Dudley in Worcestershire by JMW Turner, and the dawn of the "industrial sublime".
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