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The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My bonus guest of the second season is creative director Howard Sullivan our main topic is where inspiration comes from.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My final guest of the second series is illustrator Joey Yu. She talks about her illustration studio with such joy and generosity, hence the title!

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My fifth guest of this season is industrial designer Jon Marshall we discuss how product designers start working with clients and on briefs and how better questions not better answers lead to better design.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My fourth guest of this season is textile designer Emily Campbell, she discusses the joy she finds in perfectly aligned seams and also how a life full of different vocations have coalesced into making quilts.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My third guest of the second series is curator Corinna Gardner, she gives insight into how to organise meaning, the relationship between museum, object and visitor and how to be a cultural listener.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My second guest of the second series is photographer Talie Eigeland, she gives insight into how to prepare for a shoot, how to set up there right atmosphere to create that moment of intimacy and how to get organised at a thrash metal concert to get the prefect shot.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My first guest of the second series is artist Barnaby Barford, she gives insight into how to prepare for a solo show, how to think about how to start telling story through found objects and his relationship to materials.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My bonus guest this season is Creative Director Lucy Nurnberg, we discuss how to grow an idea from scratch, designing with attitude and humour and why North London mechanics' yards hold a special place in her heart

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My fifth guest is Ane Christensen, a contemporary metalworker. We discuss how ideas evolve over time, how rules make you creative and where inspiration might be hiding in plain sight.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My sixth and final guest for this season is costumier Ruben Bø Dower, we discuss the source of visual inspiration (spoiler Video Games), how to move from bedroom workplace to a more professional setting and how he collaborates with others.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My fourth guest is sculptor and artist Robin Tarbet we discuss, how to generate a volume of work, how to get really good at technique and why jellyfish are the perfect things to cast.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My third guest is exhibition designer Gitta Gschwendtner we discuss, how to work to a brief and stay creative in a sea of data, how to work fast and how a motif develops.

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My first guest is painter Bokani, we talk about cleaning up mess, her residency in Zimbabwe and how to quietly get past a creative block

The Empty Canvas invites a series of creative professionals to discuss how they start making work. They share how to prepare physically and mentally, what their studio or workspace looks like and where ideas come from. My second guest is potter Will Martin we discuss, showing up for yourself even when you don't feel like it, how to be inspired in a studio which is shared and how making hate plates is sometimes the best way to get started.