You can't draw joy without Joey - illustrator - Joey Yu

You can't draw joy without Joey - illustrator - Joey Yu

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!

Asking for what doesn't exist yet - industrial designer - Jon Marshall

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.

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.