A slight departure from the normal guests we invite on this episode of the podcast.  Rather than an artist or an art influencer, we are in conversation with visual influencer Niki Brantmark, founder of the phenomenally successful award-winning blog MyScandinavianHome.com and best-selling author of three interior and lifestyle publications.MyScandinavianHome.com is a daily blog with over half a million page views per month and 360K followers on Instagram.  Over the past decade, the blog has featured homes and interiors from all over the Nordics providing a visual feast of the Scandinavian aesthetic.Art and interiors function in parallel to enhance the environment and experience within a home.  Niki shares her understanding and experience surrounding lighting, materials, colour pallets which define the Nordic interiors and very much the Scandinavian approach to life.Placing art in a home is as important as understanding the light sources, flow and function of a space and we hope this conversation provides some inspiration from Scandinavia, via two British ex-pats!Visit our Podcast Instagram to view images from Niki&apos;s Blog and @nordicartagency to view the gallery.

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Niki Brantmark - In Conversation

Tom Lohner&apos;s paintings are very much like the artist himself, bold, dynamic, entertaining and fearless. During a whirlwind art career over the last twenty years, Austrian pop surrealist artist Tom Lohner has achieved huge success as a painter, a creative brand, as a gallery owner, and most recently as a creator of the first NFTs to placed in a museum collection.In this podcast we discuss Tom&apos;s artist journey, his collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe, The Baker House Gallery and Jaguar cars.  He also walks us through his creative practice and how his multidimensional approach to his artistry has enabled an evolution in his painting style and artist&apos;s brand.You can follow  Tom Lohner on Instagram and also view his website. Discover more about the Baker House Gallery and discover more about their exhibitions and location in Graz.Tom Lohner&apos;s zest for life, music and art is infectious and this conversation hopefully is inspiring for young emerging artists.

Tom Lohner - In Conversation

Spanish artist Bea Sarrias is obsessed with the architecture that surrounds her in her home city of Barcelona and the iconic international modernist and rationalist architects. Bea paints portraits of spaces and not buildings and the elements of composition, light and shade and perspective are essential to her painting practice in order to create the soul and narrative of the architecture found in her work.As a recent addition to the Nordic Art Agency&apos;s stable of artists, Bea is our first non-figurative or abstract artist.  This podcast seeks to understand why,  following her studies in Fine Art at the University of Barcelona, architecture has been her preferred and only subject matter.With commission projects for Nato Headquarters in Brussels and numerous international solo exhibitions, Bea is an established artist who works hard to continuously evolve her approach to colour, composition and understanding of industrial design and architecture.Follow Bea Sarrias on her Instagram and view her artist&apos;s profile on the Nordic Art Agency website.Images of iconic buildings and paintings by Bea discussed on the podcast can be viewed on our @nordicartagencypodcast Instagram account.

Bea Sarrias - In Conversation

Exciting British abstract painter and installation artist Sara Dare is the guest on this episode of the podcast.Sara Dare typically works on a large-scale using paper, linen and canvas combined with a range of mediums, selected for their viscosity and finish, such as ink, oil, emulsion and acrylic. Her paintings seek an evocative experience or visceral negotiation with the viewer, initially playful or peaceful followed by a sense of unease or tension.  Connecting to her painting on a physical or emotional level can also lead to a sense of unsettlement. Sara confesses in our conversation to almost sabotaging elements of beauty or perfection in favour of an authentic, human and historical practice developed through her use of colour, brushwork and material.The Nordic Art Agency is delighted to represent Sara Dare exclusively in Scandinavia and you can view more of her work over on her Instagram. We shall be exhibiting Sara Dare&apos;s painting at our Spring Art Pop Up at Hansa from April 30th - May 30th where we shall feature a new series of nine artworks alongside other international painters. Follow the Nordic Art Agency gallery on Instagram to discover more about our artists and exhibitions. We would also love for you to rate our podcast so that more people can find us and learn more about the international contemporary artists that we represent.

Sara Dare - In Conversation

In this episode, we were delighted to be joined by Alexandra Fried and Alexandra Herlitz who, together, host the podcast Konsthistoriepodden a Swedish Art History podcast.  Both are currently senior lecturers at Gothenburg University in the department of Cultural Science specialising in specific periods of Art History.The Konsthistorienpodden discusses the process, ownership and reception of well-known artworks and covers a diverse roster of artists from a broad spectrum of time periods. Most of all, it reveals the unknown twists and tales that lay behind many of the lives of the artists and their acclaimed artworks.In our conversation, we discuss the value of understanding or being able to deconstruct artworks of historical importance and how that impacts how we view contemporary art. We also explore the importance of the narrative behind contemporary and historical artists and the value of historical art in modern culture and society.You can listen to the Konsthistorienpodden on most podcast platforms. Also, you can follow Alexandra Fried and Alexandra Herlitz and their insightful podcast and discover more art history adventures on Instagram and on Facebook. Please follow the Nordic Art Agency Podcast and the Nordic Art Agency on Instagram and be sure to subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode of Season 2.

Konsthistoriepodden In Conversation

Marta Lafuente is a figurative painter based in  Barcelona.  She has developed a unique mixed media style and creates memorable and emotional paintings which touch on the everyday encounter and forgotten moments.In the podcast, she discusses her painting practice and dedication to her instinctive process, her work as a Professor of Drawing at the Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelona and her award-winning animation films.Marta has a true artist&apos;s soul and expresses her artwork and creative practice in a moving manner, as a complex and emotional process of evolution, mistakes and revisiting the past.We have represented Marta&apos;s work exclusively in Scandinavia since 2017 and are delighted to share new works this Spring on her artist&apos;s page on the Nordic Art Agency website.You can also view the short animation films discussed in the podcast, Deep and La Boite on  Vimeo.Marta Lafuente can be followed on her Instagram and a recent collection of her paintings can be found at the Nordic Art Gallery or on Artsy.

Marta Lafuente - In Conversation

In this episode of the podcast, we join photographer Natalie Christensen in her Santa Fe studio.  With over 51,000 Instagram followers Natalie Christensen's career has been one very much born online and driven by a thriving organic digital audience.Architecture is the main subject matter of her images as she is intrigued by line, form, structure and what lies beyond the edges of an image.  Her photographs deliver vibrant narratives that are both uplifting and reflective.Natalie Christensen exhibits in Europe and the US  and was one of five invited photographers at The National: Best of Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art and was recently named one of “Ten Photographers to Watch” at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. You can find Natalie Christensen on Instagram and her collaborative partner Jim Eyre.We are delighted to represent Natalie exclusively in the Nordics and currently have two of her works exhibited at our Winter Art Pop Up until December 31st 2020.Please send your suggestion of artists or art influencers who you would like to hear on the podcast for 2021.

Natalie Christensen - In Conversation

Our podcast guest is the delightful Modupeola Fadugba, a young multi-disciplinarian artist who draws from her vast global travels and academic background.Modupeola holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a Masters in Economics from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Education from Harvard University but her heart and passion is deeply rooted in visual learning and responses.In her short six-year career as an artist, she has created powerful and beautiful bodies of work which touches on societal and political diversity, community, female empowerment and the artwork through the swim stories and the synchronised swimming.  Her paintings are featured in impressive museums and private collection around the globe.In our conversation, Modupeola joins us from Philidelphia where she is currently completing her residency at the Smithsonian. We explore her painting practice, use of materials and the impact of her life growing up in Togo, Uganda, Nigeria and UK.  She is a brilliant observer and combines her intellect and warmth to establish human value and narrative effortlessly in her impactful artwork.With exhibitions in Paris, London and Accra, we hope to welcome her to Scandinavia in the future.  You can view all her work on her website and on the Nordic Art Agency Instagram.

Modupeola Fadugba - In Conversation

Welcome to the wonderful (and slightly alternative) world of Danish photographer Lars Daniel.Lars Daniel is always joyfully reasserting and contradicting initial responses to his photography, and this conversation is no different.As a conceptual photographer, Lars Daniel sees the human form and the environment in which they exist in his images as otherworldly, dreamlike and somewhat removed from reality.  All literal meaning is therefore lost and any alternative view is open to be experienced. The BIG SLEEP series, Cultural Baggage II and Freedom & Happiness are all images which intrigue and require contemplation.You can view Lars Daniel's and current installation at HANSA Malmö on the second floor as part of are HANSA LOVES ART concept until the end of November 2020.All prints are available in a limited edition of  10 + 1 AP printed on matte Hahnemühle paper, mounted & framed in handcrafted, dark solid smoked oak frames and available to view and purchase online.  Contact the gallery for complimentary international shipping.

Lars Daniel - In Conversation

British artist Christabel Blackburn won Sky Art's Portrait Artist of the Year earlier in 2020 with her minimal and stripped back contemporary portraiture style. Christabel's compositions typically include flat planes of colour, architectural aspects, simplistic interiors with limited details balancing of context, reduction and intimacy.In the podcast, she discusses her journey as an artist and her recent experience painting music legend Nile Rodgers, founder of the 70s band Chic, which now hangs in the Royal Albert Hall in London. A must watch is the brilliant final of Sky Art's Portrait of the Year, which was an incredible event, filmed in the National Portrait Gallery in London.We are delighted that Christabel Blackburn has recently joined the Nordic Art Agency and we will exhibit three of her works in our exhibition FACES//PLACES which opens on Friday, October 9th in our Malmö gallery.Follow Christabel Blackburn over on Instagram and watch her portrait painting tutorial in collaboration with Partnership Editions.

Christabel Blackburn - In Conversation

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 resin has informed her recent bodies of work.You can follow Catherine on Instagram to view her recent works.  The Nordic Art Agency has a selection of resin on canvas artworks by Catherine which are available to view in our gallery and we shall be hosting a solo exhibition Infinite Spaces in 2021 in the gallery.

Catherine Ludeau - In Conversation

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 approach to his career as an artist and painter showing considerable maturity, despite being in his 20s, and has complete conviction in his creative practice and use of materials. Having exhibited in numerous solo and groups exhibition in the UK, the US and extensively in Europe, we are delighted to be welcoming Frederic Paul to exhibit at the Nordic Art Agency in Malmö this August-September, in his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.  BLOOM will be a continuation of his positive, vibrate and uplifting mixed media paintings incorporating oil, acrylic and hand-torn Chinese Rice Paper. The exhibition will also feature an abstract installation of fragmented elements.Follow Frederic Paul on Instagram and you can also view one of his recent studio time-lapses here.We are delighted to represent Frederic Paul exclusively in the Nordics.

Frederic Paul In Conversation

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 Saatchi Arts Rising Stars of 2019 and exhibiting in February 2020 in the Maddox Gallery in Mayfair, London.We are all about supporting fresh, talented, international female artists at the Nordic Art Agency and Molly is an exciting artist to watch.In the podcast, Molly discussed the historical and nostalgic utopia depictions explored in her work as she gives new life to images uncovered in old black and white photographs discovered in flea markets or antique fairs. Rituals and ceremonies, costume and theatre also play a role in her striking muted pastel-painted canvases.We are currently featuring two of Molly's paintings in our HANSA LOVES ART International Art Pop Up until July 25th 2020. Both works, Intrusion and Colony, are featured in our current digital exhibition catalogue and on our website.Molly’s painting has already been featured in the Wing’s Private Collection in London and we are delighted to represent her in Scandinavia exclusively. We will also be featuring new work later this year in our group exhibition FACES which will take place in the Nordic Art Agency Gallery in Malmö in October.You can discover more about Molly Brocklehurst by visiting her website and do also follow her on Instagram.Enjoy!

Molly Brocklehurst - In Conversation

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 collections and impressive public art placements.  Simon is also the founder of Sculpture By The Lakes, a stunning park located in Dorset, England which is an abundance of nature, wildlife and sculpture.  Recently, as the park is currently closed, Simon has been documenting the walkways, viewpoints, gardens and artworks in a series of personal and informative videos which are available to view online.In our conversation, Simon shares his journey as a painter and sculptor and how his childhood, filled with impressions from countryside and nature, inspired his artist's process and subject matter.We shall be exhibiting three of Simon's sculptures in bronze, Luna, Bird of Happiness and Search For Enlightenment at our HANSA LOVES ART pop up at HANSA Malmö, which opens on 20th May - 27th June. View Simon Gudgeon's artist page to view all three sculpture and larger works in situ.  The Nordic Art Agency are delighted to exclusively represent Simon in the Scandinavia.

Simon Gudgeon - In Conversation

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 linen and during our conversation she explores how her artist practice has changed during the lockdown confinement in Barcelona, where her family and studio are based. The art market is currently in unchartered territory as we record this podcast and it's fascinating to hear Chelsea Davine reflections, and in some ways, the much-needed regression and stillness that has occurred in her life as an artist, as all of a sudden everything has been simplified.We also invite Chelsea Davine to discuss the works which will be exhibited at HANSA LOVES ART, our forthcoming Art Pop Up in Malmö which opens on Wednesday, May 20th. You can check out Chelsea Davine on Instagram and on her website and over on her artist's page at the Nordic Art Agency.

Chelsea Davine - In Conversation

A lively bi-monthly podcast exploring international emerging and established artists and art influencers. Hosted by British Art Historian, Art Advisor and Gallerist Juliet Rees-Nilsson, based in Scandinavia, who brings her open fresh approach to art and art collecting with great co-hosts and insightful conversations.