Joanna Whittle is a multi-prize winning landscape artist regarded by some as the greatest painter of her generation. In this episode, she talks about the influences of a childhood spent abroad, her attraction to tents and fairground structures and what they mean conceptually and metaphorically, the dualities in her paintings, the lack of planning in her process, the uncanny nature of her work, her love of loneliness as an artist, her attraction to shrines, why she paints small-scale, and about the Heavy Water Collective she co-founded.

Joanna Whittle talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Rain Tent

Glow Slump

Darkened Heart ( a fugitive and wanderer on the earth)

All Day It Has Rained and Unsheltered Rain Desert (not here)

Forest Shrine (mouth)

The Machine

All images are © Joanna Whittle

Top photo courtesy Jashan Walton

You can see more of Joanna’s work on her website

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial