The Empty Canvas with Pascal Anson - The podcast about how creativity begins

From Ivy halls to Quilty walls - textile artist - Emily Campbell

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.

Curating meaning in a world full of stuff - cultural listener - Corinna Gardner

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.

Intimate portraits like love songs with an intense metal guitar solo - Talie Eigeland

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.

Tiny Tyrants - Figuring out savage modern life in porcelain - Barnaby Barford

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 last safe space is a rental truck with a disco inside - Lucy Nurnberg

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