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Each week, we sit down with some of the world’s most talented and successful artists and share the stories that have influenced their creative journeys. From their earliest experiments to their most impactful works, you’ll discover the processes and philosophies that have shaped their art.

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S8 · E4
Thursday · 55 min
Katerina Knight: Lavender lace
English textile artist, writer and educator Katerina Knight shares how she grows, forages and dries the flowers she stitches into delicate, lace-like works, threading each lavender seed and dahlia petal by hand. Speaking with host Sophie Edward, she reflects on leaving luxury fashion, finding healing on her allotment, embracing impermanence, and her new book, Stitching with Nature. Take Two Art on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/taketwoartcourses/ View this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@TakeTwoArtCourses Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews
S8 · E3
November 5 · 1 hr 36 min
Julian Jamaal Jones: Gesture, Colour, Quilt
Do you need to learn the traditional rules of quilting before you break them? How do you know when a quilt is finished? And does your thread colour really matter? Take Two Creative Director Jo sits down with artist and quilter Julian Jamaal Jones to answer your most-asked questions about his practice. Julian shares how he came to quilting through fashion photography and his family’s quilting legacy. He explains how he turns emotion into gestural marks, prints his drawings onto fabric and builds a composition without a pattern. We’re sharing it to celebrate the launch of Julian’s new course with Take Two Art, Gesture, Colour, Quilt, our first ever dedicated quilting course. In this episode: – How did Julian find his way to quilting? – Did he learn the traditional rules of patchwork before breaking them? – Who decides what counts as “proper” quilting? – What fabrics and printing methods does Julian use? – Does he paint or draw directly onto fabric? – How do you bring structure to a bold, colourful composition? – How do you know when a quilt is finished? (Hint: if it feels done, it’s done.) – Does thread colour matter, and does a quilt always need binding? – Can you make a quilt from your own fabric stash? – What equipment do you need to get started? – Why Julian hopes your quilts look nothing like his Featuring: Julian Jamaal Jones – self-taught artist and quilter from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Hosted by Jo, Take Two Creative Director Enrol in Gesture, Colour, Quilt with Julian Jamaal Jones: https://taketwoart.com/courses/julian-jamaal-jones Explore all Take Two Art courses: https://taketwoart.com/courses Take Two Art on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/taketwoartcourses/ View this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@TakeTwoArtCourses Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S8 · E2
October 29 · 1 hr 8 min
Hamlett Dobbins: Pleasure seeker
Memphis-based abstract painter Hamlett Dobbins creates paintings full of colour, pattern and movement, each beginning with a small, everyday memory of whole-body pleasure. Breaking those moments into shape, rhythm and colour, he returns to them in the studio again and again. In this conversation, Hamlett explores how an experience becomes an artwork, the role of drawing, and why finding your voice may begin with paying attention. Take Two Art on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/taketwoartcourses/ View this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@TakeTwoArtCourses Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S8 · E1
October 22 · 45 min
What is tufting with Tara Axford and Nicola Rough
What is tufting, which tufting gun should you buy, and why isn't your tufting gun working? Take Two Course Creator Tara Axford and Content Manager Nicola Rough answer your most-asked tufting questions. With clips from Kerri Hollingsworth's previously unreleased course interview and US tufting artist Melissa Monroe, they explore what tufting is, how to choose a tufting gun, why your frame matters, how to work with recycled yarns, carving, and caring for your body as you tuft. We're sharing it to celebrate the launch of Kerri's new tufting course with Take Two Art, Tufting. In this episode: – What is tufting, and how is it different from latch hook and punch needle? – Is tufting hard to learn? – What equipment do you need to start tufting? – Which tufting gun should you buy? – Why isn't your tufting gun working? (Hint: check your frame.) – What yarn can you use for tufting, including recycled fibres? – What is carving, and how does it shape a tufted piece? – Is tufting hard on your body? – Why Kerri tufts furniture people can sit on Featuring: Kerri Hollingsworth – fibre artist and furniture upholsterer from country Victoria, Australia Melissa Monroe – tufting artist making wall pieces and sculptural furniture Hosted by Tara Axford, Take Two Course Creator, and Nicola Rough, Take Two Content Manager Enrol in Tufting with Kerri Hollingsworth: https://taketwoart.com/courses/tufting-art-kerri-hollingsworth Explore all Take Two Art courses: https://taketwoart.com/courses
S7 · E10
October 15 · 1 hr
From the archives: Rescued pages with Sarah Z Short
Rhode Island collage artist and printmaker Sarah Z Short gives discarded books and paper ephemera a second life. Printing with vintage wooden type chosen for its shape rather than its words, she cuts and layers rescued pages into bold, abstract compositions. This conversation explores working with repurposed materials, building from the grid, and the happy accident that sparked her boro-inspired series. Take Two Art on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/taketwoartcourses/ View this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@TakeTwoArtCourses Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E9
October 9 · 1 hr 6 min
Juz Kitson: Learning to break rules
What happens when we let go of perfection and give ourselves permission to experiment? Join Angela and ceramic artist Juz Kitson as they explore creative reinvention, impermanence and the joy of breaking the rules. From extraordinary sculptural installations to her new online course, Curious Matter, Juz shares how curiosity can shake up your practice, alongside practical insights into what students can expect. Learn more about Curious Matter here: https://taketwoart.com/courses/juzkitson The Art House Milton - Porcelain Queen shop https://www.thearthousemilton.com/shop Juz Kitson on Instargam https://www.instagram.com/juz_kitson/ Take Two Art on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/taketwoartcourses/ View this episode on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/@TakeTwoArtCourses Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
October 1 · 49 min
From the archives: Seth Apter on hidden, layered magic
New York City based mixed media artist, instructor, author and designer Seth Apter shares how a chance gallery visit and years of handmade mail art turned a psychologist into a full-time artist. Known for richly layered, textural work built from thread, found objects and vintage ephemera, Seth reflects on community, creative generosity, and why every artist is always one layer away from magic. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
September 23 · 1 hr 2 min
From the archives: Ana Zanic on watercolour flow
Croatian-born, Chicago-based artist Ana Zanic embraces watercolour as a spontaneous, layered practice built from washes, drawn marks and a loose, improvisational hand. Her series, including Migration, made around her US citizenship, explore movement, memory and identity. In this conversation, Ana talks about accidental burn marks discovered with her son, working at scale, and how becoming a mother led her, unexpectedly, into ceramics. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E6
September 17 · 1 hr 9 min
Patrick Bongoy: Sacred material
Congolese-born, Cape Town-based artist Patrick Bongoy transforms reclaimed rubber inner tubes into intricately woven sculptures confronting histories of extraction, displacement and survival. A 2024 LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize finalist now representing the DRC at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Patrick reflects on his family's early resistance to his path, the enduring legacy of Congo's rubber trade, and how ritual and spirituality shape his practice. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
September 10 · 1 hr 7 min
Catherine-Marie Longtin: Quilts, endlessly
French Canadian textile artist Catherine-Marie Longtin, based in South London, builds quilts and stretched fabric artworks from collected linens and solids, favouring analogous colour and hand-pieced geometry over pattern and print. A former academic, she left that career in 2008 and has just published a book exploring 100 variations of the traditional log cabin block. In this conversation, Catherine reflects on breaking quilting's unwritten rules, trusting colour instinct, and building a long project one block at a time. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E4
September 3 · 1 hr 37 min
Anne von Freyburg: Sewing rebellion into softness
Dutch, London-based artist Anne von Freyburg creates large-scale textile paintings that reimagine Rococo portraiture in hand-sewn tapestry, sequins and PVC fabric. In this conversation, she unpacks the hierarchy between painting and textile, why pleasure and excess are acts of resistance, and the six-month process behind her recent Saatchi Gallery installation. Anne also previews Pleasure Garden, her upcoming solo show with HOFA Gallery. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E4
August 27 · 1 hr 5 min
Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald: Modern mender
Melbourne-based repair artist Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald mends clothes with visible, playful stitching that turns holes into design features rather than flaws. Once called "a tattoo artist for clothes," she teaches darning and mending and is the author of her book Modern Mending, now in its third printing. In this conversation, Erin shares stories of sentimental repairs, the philosophy of "beautiful and bonkers," and why there are more holes. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E3
August 20 · 1 hr 13 min
Irene Roderick: On starting again
Austin, Texas-based textile artist Irene Roderick creates bold, improvisational quilts, building each piece outward from a single scrap of fabric pinned to her design wall. After decades as a painter, she discovered quilting at 66 and never looked back, developing her signature Dancing With the Wall method. In this conversation, Irene reflects on identity, resilience after a health crisis that took her creativity away, and her recent return to painting. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E2
August 13 · 1 hr 8 min
Paula Kovarik: Stitching as meditation and protest
Memphis-based fiber artist Paula Kovarik creates layered quilted and sculptural works by cutting up her own quilts and repurposing them as raw material. Her practice channels memory, politics and the news cycle into stitch and line, favouring process over finished product. In this conversation, she reflects on her evolving 3D work, a recent Japan residency, and the day she took a chainsaw to a piece in protest. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E1
August 6 · 1 hr 8 min
Craig Underhill: What the tide gives back
Cornwall-based ceramicist Craig Underhill creates slab-built forms that blur the line between sculpture and vessel, their surfaces layered with marks and colour drawn straight from the Cornish coastline. In this conversation, Craig reflects on thirty-five years of practice, sketchbooks, glazes, and a brand new body of work that has him immersing raw, unfired clay in the sea to see what the tide gives back. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E13
July 30 · 1 hr 12 min
From the archives: Listening to the materials with Alice Fox
Natural fibre artist Alice Fox discusses her process-led practice – working with rust, plant dyes, foraged fibres and hand-bound books shaped by materials found and grown. A former nature conservationist, she describes turning her allotment into an ongoing residency, exploring self-sufficiency in art materials. This conversation covers sustainability, self-publishing, and letting the properties of natural materials guide the work. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E12
July 23 · 58 min
From the archives: A story in every fold with Sarah Grace Dye
Visual artist and bookmaker Sarah Grace Dye discusses her practice of transforming discarded materials – avocado skins, kitchen roll, family letters – into artists' books and keepsakes. Working from a small studio in Frankfurt, she shares her approach to papermaking, folding and storytelling through texture and touch. This conversation explores loss, memory, sustainability, and the quiet discipline of making something small and meaningful every day. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E11
July 17 · 54 min
From the archives: Vessels that hold light with Gizella Warburton
British textile artist Gizella Warburton discusses her sculptural vessel forms – shadowed, scratched, stitched, bound and burnt into being. Drawing on printed and woven textile training, she describes making as a visceral, intuitive process guided by feel rather than a fixed plan. This conversation explores balance, containment, and how landscape, light and ritual shape a practice built on patience. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E10
July 9 · 1 hr 6 min
From the archives: Whispers in cloth with Jette Clover
Danish-born textile artist Jette Clover reflects on four decades of art quiltmaking – from curating Europe's first art quilt exhibitions to creating intimate, text-based collages of paper, cloth and paint. Now based in Antwerp, she discusses her daily fifteen-minute collage ritual, her fascination with weathered city walls and handwriting, and the restraint she calls "a little lipstick" – one considered touch of colour amid quiet, layered compositions. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E9
July 2 · 1 hr 19 min
Clare Celeste Börsch: Enchanted ecosystems
American collage and installation artist Clare Celeste Börsch, based in Berlin, creates immersive works from found and open-source naturalist illustrations, exploring biodiversity, memory and loss. In this conversation, she traces her evolution from paper collage to large-scale installation, and speaks candidly about motherhood, climate anxiety, and learning to value her work as her practice has grown. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.

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