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Only Artists

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Only Artists brings two artists together to talk about their creative work.

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.

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: Series 4

Only Artists: Series 4: Mark Haddon and Tai Shan Schierenberg

Mark Haddon and Tai Shan Schierenberg

28/02/2018

Series 4

BBC Radio 4 - Only Artists, Series 4, Mark Haddon and Tai Shan Schierenberg

Writer Mark Haddon meets portrait and landscape painter Tai Shan Schierenberg.

Writer Mark Haddon meets portrait and landscape artist Tai Shan Schierenberg to talk about the connection between painting, short stories and creative flow.

The writer Mark Haddon meets the portrait and landscape artist Tai Shan Schierenberg. They talk about the connection between painting and short stories, capturing the English landscape and creative flow. 

Mark's best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time has won numerous awards and become an internationally successful play. Most recently he published his first ever collection of short stories called The Pier Falls. 

Tai Shan Schierenberg won the National Portrait Gallery's Portraiture Award in 1989, and the Ondaatje Prize in 2011. His works hang in the National Portrait Gallery and notable sitters include the Queen with Prince Philip, Seamus Heaney and Stephen Hawking. 

Producer: Clare Walker.

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