Wendy Sharpe talks with Maria Stoljar on the Talking with Painters podcast

Maria Stoljar caught up with leading artist Wendy Sharpe in her studio to talk about her show 'Magic' showing at King Street Gallery on William in Sydney. They also moved onto many other topics including the controversy around her painting 'The Witches' in 2016, her involvement in the SBS show 'Life Drawing Live' and the story behind her Archibald portrait of actor and comedian Magda Szubanski. Maria previously interviewed Wendy for the Talking with Painters podcast in 2018. The link for that interview and accompanying video is below. 0:04 - Themes of ‘the real and the imagined’ and ‘making our inner world visible 1:35 - Controversy of ‘The Witches of Macbeth’ painting 3:58 - Discussion of ‘The Witches of Macbeth’ painting - using the imagination 4:58 - Discussion of ‘Fluid Time’ - creating excitement in a painting 6:28 - Extent to which painting as an instinctive process 7:17 - Discussion of ‘Walking Home’, ‘Erskineville Train Station’ - getting ideas for paintings 9:40 - Wendy shows her sketchbooks - how to get ideas through ‘thinking drawings’ 15:42 - Papier-Mâché figure used as figure in painting 17:21 - Smaller works in frames found from flea markets - open ended works 18:43 - What brings one back to a painting - not spelling everything out 19:17 - SBS show ‘Life Drawing Live’ which Wendy was part of 22:21 - Portrait ‘Magda Szubanski - comedy and tragedy’ - Archibald finalist painting - story behind the portrait 29:32 - Discussion around the fact that Wendy has many projects going at the same time Episode 45, Talking with Painters: https://www.talkingwithpainters.com/2... Website: http://talkingwithpainters.com/ Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/t... Facebook:   / talkingwithpainters   Twitter:   / painterstalk   Instagram:   / talking_with_painters