Only Artists from BBC Radio 4 brings two artists together to talk about their creative work. The agenda is theirs, the conversation is free-flowing, and there is no presenter. The title derives from the art historian EH Gombrich, who began his highly influential book The Story of Art with the famous line “There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists”. Here are some of them…
Only Artists from BBC Radio 4 brings two artists together to talk about their creative work. The agenda is theirs, the conversation is free-flowing, and there is no presenter. The title derives from the art historian EH Gombrich, who began his highly influential book The Story of Art with the famous line “There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists”. Here are some of them…
The folk singer Karine Polwart meets the artist Jen Frankwell.
Karine Polwart is Scottish songwriter and musician. She was BBC Radio 2’s Folk Singer Of The Year in 2018.
Jen Frankwell is a visual artist and leatherworker, handcrafting sporrans and kiltbelts . She has created artworks for Karine’s latest album, The Scottish Songbook, in which she re-interprets Scottish pop songs from the past 50 years.
Producer: Clare Walker