Episodes

  • S2E38: Ashlea Downes, Camera Operator, Steadicam Operator

    S2E38: Ashlea Downes, Camera Operator, Steadicam Operator
    Sep 17 2024
    This week the South African camera operator and steadicam operator, Ashlea Downes. Among Ashlea’s credits are the popular Netflix series Bridgerton on which she is working with a previous guest on this podcast, Alicia Robbins. Ashlea has also worked on House of the Dragon, Wicked, Skyfall, Spider-Man: Far From Home and His Dark Materials. Ashlea was born in Pretoria, South African in 1985. Her father, Ant, was an accountant and business owner, and her mother, Alex, an artist and art teacher. Her brother, Scott, is a hand painted sign artist. Ashlea grew up enjoying sports and the outdoors; she was a competitive rider, taking after her mother who was a keen horsewoman. She also swam, played water polo and netball but academia was not her rap. Instead she followed her father’s interest in photography and her mother’s talent for art. Her love of wildlife gave her aspirations to be a wildlife documentary filmmaker so it was no surprise that these influences steered her to the AFDA Film School where she graduated with a degree in Cinematography. After college, her relentless determination and ambition to break into the industry opened up opportunities that would prove the foundation of her career, and soon she would find herself being called up for the Bond movie Skyfall filming in Turkey and then to the UK to film at the London Olympics. A turning point in her career was moving to the UK shortly after where she met her partner and found steady work from trainee to 2nd AC/ loader and then making her mark as a camera operator. Ashlea lives between Reading, England and Cape Town, South Africa with her husband Karl Taggart. She is currently working as a camera operator on Season 4 of Bridgerton.

    Ashlea on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4701569/
    Instagram: @ashlea_downes
    https://www.instagram.com/ashlea_downes

    Ashlea’s favorite women in visual arts:
    Charlotte Bruus Christensen
    Mandy Walker
    Reed Morano
    Rachel Morrison
    Catherine Goldschmidt
    Alicia Robbins
    Alice Brook
    Elana Garret

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    Email: hollowellstudios@gmail.com


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    59 mins
  • S2E37: Goldie Poblador, Glass and Scent Artist

    S2E37: Goldie Poblador, Glass and Scent Artist
    Sep 10 2024
    This week the Filipina artist Goldie Poblador who works in scent and glass interactive instillation art. Goldie specializes in glass flameworking combined with performance, video, installation, and scent embodying themes of feminism, the environment, and decolonization as it relates to the body. Goldie was born in Manila, The Philippines in 1987. Her parents; Napoleon Poblador, a lawyer and painter and Gizela Poblador, a home-maker who had earlier studied dentistry. Goldie is the eldest of four children; she has three younger brothers. She was, she says, an imaginative child who enjoyed creating worlds and performing. Her parents exposed her to art and music; she visited art shows, galleries and museums, learned the piano, and performed in a drama club. By the age of 18 Goldie was performing in a Punk band; something she likes to recreate today for fun. But it was her fascination with glass and painting that would steer her through college. She graduated from the University of The Philippines in 2009 with a BFA in Studio Art and later with an MFA Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design. Between colleges Goldie was introduced to the Scuola Abate Zanetti in Murano, Italy. She also worked as an artist and attended the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, co-founded by the renown glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. Goldie has been exhibited internationally at such institutions as the Yangon Secretariat Building Knockdown Center, Cemeti Art House, Singapore Art Museum, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Fine Art Museum of Hanoi and The Cultural Center of the Philippines. She is currently working on a show for the Art Fair in The Philippines in 2025. Goldie will be a featured artist in the Sensorium, Stories of Glass and Fragrance; an exhibition that will explore the millennia-long relationships between glass, perfumery, and the storage of scent, at the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) from September 7, 2024 - February 1, 2025. Goldie is married to Joseph Sousa and the couple live in New York City.

    https://goldiepoblador.com/Information
    Instagram: @_goldieland
    https://www.instagram.com/_goldieland

    Goldie’s favorite female artists:
    Janine Antoni
    Agnes Arellano
    Joan Jonas
    Camille Claudel
    Kiki Smith

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    Email: hollowellstudios@gmail.com

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • S2E36: Carla Bosch, Acrylic Artist

    S2E36: Carla Bosch, Acrylic Artist
    Sep 3 2024
    The South African acrylic painter Carla Bosch is known for her vibrant colors and bold strokes that trademark an unapologetic style. Her landscape paintings represent a wide range of nature’s palette uniquely capturing its light. Carla was born in Pretoria in 1976 to Anton, a pharmacist and amateur artist, and Ronel Gericke a home-maker and keen musician. She has a sister Murentia. Carla describes her childhood spent enjoying family hikes around South Africa as happy and loving. Her father encouraged an interest in art and she would follow his lead as she explored different mediums. Carla studied Interior Design at the University of Pretoria and although she says she has always had high energy and a limited attention it would be art that would fully absorb her as as self taught artist. By the age of 25 she found herself a full-time artist, and with the help of her husband Elroy, Carla operates a successful business with clients around the world. The couple moved to the US in 2013 spending five years in California before relocating to Texas. Carla is represented in galleries in France, the UK, South Africa, Maryland and Texas. Carla has two children: Sarah and Daniel, and lives with her husband Elroy and their Chocolate Labradoodle Jamie in Austin, Texas.

    Carla’s website: https://www.carlabosch.com/
    Carla on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlaboschart
    @carlaboschart

    Some of Carla’s favorite female artists:
    Isabel Le Roux
    Irma Stern
    Maggie Laubser

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • S2E35: Patsy O'Neill, Make-up Artist

    S2E35: Patsy O'Neill, Make-up Artist
    Aug 27 2024
    This week the British make-up artist Patsy O’Neill whose career was founded in the 90’s in MTV and has spanned the world of TV, music, commercials, film and editorial. Patsy was born in 1975 in the shadow of West Ham football ground in East London. Her parents Robert O’Neill, an electrical engineer and Julia Dooley, a nurse & practice manager were Irish immigrants. Patsy is the middle of three children—she has an older brother and younger sister— and was educated at the Ursuline Convent School for Girls in Forest Gate, London. Her love of the arts could be seen in her constant drawings as a child and interest in fashion so it was no surprise that she chose to study Design Fashion Styling For Make - up and Hair at the London College of Fashion from where she graduated in 1993. From there she chose to start working in the business to get hands on experience, which is where her early opportunities created a pathway for her career. She has, she says, done just about everything in the business and loves to share her knowledge by mentoring interns and graduates. Her roster of celebrity clients are some of the most recognizable women on the red carpet and have led her to having her work showcased at the Oscars. Patsy lives in London with her partner Richard Jakes and son Arlo.

    Patsy’s website: https://www.patriciaoneill.co.uk/
    Instagram: @patsyoneillmakeup
    https://www.instagram.com/patsyoneillmakeup

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    Email: hollowellstudios@gmail.com


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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • S2E34: Carla Ciuffo, Multi-media Artist

    S2E34: Carla Ciuffo, Multi-media Artist
    Aug 20 2024
    This week the multi-media artist Carla Ciuffo whose innovative image making process and utilization of experimental printing and installation techniques, create a layered and immersive, often mystical environment. She says her approach treads the boundary between documentary and experimental arts. Carla was born on Long Island, New York to father Armand, a dentist and artist, and Loretta, a home-maker and amateur photographer. She has two sisters who are also artistic: Adrienne is a documentary filmmaker and Roberta works in the Nashville Arts and Arts Education. Carla attended some college but dropped out but then later proudly obtaining her Harvard ID when she did a study residency with the Disease and Biophysics Group. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, Carla worked a variety of jobs during her 20 years in New York City from candy stores to book printing. In her 40’s she left New York for Arizona where she trained as a massage therapist and became an entrepreneur starting small businesses. From Arizona, Carla moved to Tennessee in 2010 to become a professional artist and now an aspiring author of queer fiction. Carla and her wife Angela live in Nashville, TN.

    Carla’s website: https://www.carlaciuffo.art/
    Instagram: @Carla Ciuffo
    https://www.instagram.com/carlaciuffoworks/

    Carla’s favorite female artists:
    Jennifer O’Connell-Knoerzer
    Courtney Minor
    Suzanne Theodora White
    Louise Dumont
    Lea Craigie
    Anna Karvounari
    Olga Fedorova
    Connie Hansen
    Ursula von Rydingsvard
    Ana Francisca

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    Email: hollowellstudios@gmail.com


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • S2E33: Jamie Beck, Photographer

    S2E33: Jamie Beck, Photographer
    Aug 13 2024
    The American photographer Jamie Beck is known for focusing on portraying life and her natural surroundings in the Provence. Jamie is the author of two books: ‘An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography’ published in 2022 which became a New York Times Bestseller, and The Flowers of Provence published in 2024. In the last few years Jamie has created an online marketplace for her custom designs and also founded The Starling Club, an online social club for creative women. Jamie was born in Arlington, TX, one of two children to James Beck, a law enforcement officer and Gina Pine, an accountant. She has an older brother and a step-father. Her early interest in photography began as a child wanting to memorialize images, which led to taking photos once her mother gave her her first camera. Jamie’s love of fashion led her to starting her career in fashion photography once she graduated from the New York Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in Fashion Photography. She then worked in New York as a fashion and commercial photographer for 13 years before moving to the South of France. Jamie’s raison d’être is to capture the beauty of nature most notably through her love of flowers and the lifestyles of the Provence. Jamie lives in Apt with her husband Kevin and daughter Eloise.

    Jamie's website:
    https://jamiebeck.co/
    Jamie on Instagram: @jamiebeck.co
    https://www.instagram.com/jamiebeck.co/
    The Starling Club https://club.jamiebeck.co/

    Jamie’s favorite female artists:
    Maria Rose
    Natasshia Neary
    Ronni Nicole
    Katie Whipple

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    Email: hollowellstudios@gmail.com


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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • S2E32: Lucy Joyce, Wildlife Artist

    S2E32: Lucy Joyce, Wildlife Artist
    Aug 6 2024
    This week the British wildlife artist Lucy Joyce. Lucy’s painstaking attention to detail is her signature on portraits of a variety of animals. Her artistry is crafted from photographic images, and in some cases her own compositions, as she meticulously accounts for every hair and whisker. Lucy was born in Northampton in 1979, the oldest of two children—she has a younger brother Robert. Her mother Jackie Smith, is a part-time seamstress, and her father Brian was a precision engineer in motorsport. Lucy completed her GCSE and A Levels at Chenderit School in Oxfordshire including two GCSEs in Art and A Level Art, before working in print and design. She then attended Southampton Solent University where she earned a degree in Marketing Design. Lucy met her husband at uni and upon graduation the couple spent a year working in Canada before returning to the UK. After the birth of her two sons, Lucy returned to her art and built a clientele for pet portraits. In 2016, she became a full-time artist and now has commissions for her wildlife and pet portraits that extend far into next year. Lucy lives near Newbury in Berkshire with her husband Simon, two sons; Jack and Charlie and two Cocker Spaniels.

    www.mrsjoycedraws.co.uk
    Instagram: @mrsjoycedraws
    TikTok: @mrsjoycedraws
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/mrsjoycedraws

    Some favorite female artists:
    Carla Grace
    Dina Brodsky
    Zoe Fitchet
    Demi Lang
    Georgia Hart
    Jennifer Gennari

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    Email: hollowellstudios@gmail.com

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    47 mins
  • S2E31: Alicia Robbins, Cinematographer

    S2E31: Alicia Robbins, Cinematographer
    Jul 30 2024
    This week the American cinematographer Alicia Robbins who is the first female to become a full-time Director of Photography on a Shondaland series. Alicia was lead DP on season 17 of GREY’S ANATOMY, and also lensed episodes of season 3 of the Netflix series, ‘BRIDGERTON. Other credits include a 2022 mini-series for Netflix titled KEEP BREATHING. She also shot four episodes of season 2 of the NBC re-boot of Quantum Leap. The feature BABYSPLITTERS, lensed by Alicia, won Best Feature Film at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Best Comedy Feature at the San Diego International Film Festival, and received a mention in Variety for its "sparkling" cinematography. And THE WEDDING INVITATION won Best Romantic Comedy at the Manhattan Film Festival and Best Comedy at Burbank International Festival in 2016. Alicia is the 2018 recipient of the prestigious Emerging Cinematographer Award from the Cinematographer's Guild for her work on the short INTERNET GANGSTERS. Alicia was born in San Diego, California in 1979, the youngest of three children—she has an older sister Theresa and brother Tommy—to parents Mary Lynne and Tommy—both musicians, piano and voice teachers. Her parents lived in San Diego for over 20 years but when Alicia was four years old, the family moved to Trussville, AL where she grew up. At the age of seven, she became a competitive swimmer through high school. Despite a musical background, Alicia chose a career in cinematography and in 2003, she graduated with an MFA from the American Film Institute (AFI). Alicia will be returning to BRIDGERTON to shoot Season 4 later this year. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, fellow DP, David Smith.

    Instagram:
    @aliciacamchick
    Website:
    https://www.aliciarobbins.com/
    IMDB:
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730281/?ref_=nv_sr_1

    Some favorite women in visual arts:
    Mary Lynne Robbins
    Mandy Walker
    Natalie Kingston
    Jeanne Tyson

    Host: Chris Stafford
    Produced by Hollowell Studios
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    Email: hollowellstudios@gmail.com

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    1 hr and 19 mins