From his studio Alex discusses the importance of understanding your own learning style and recounts his own experiences of learning how to learn.

Alex, while discovering he’s really not a closet fan of romance literature, finds that there is a certain magic to doing one thing really well, through a journey via identity crisis and Barbara Cartland.

Alex talks to artist Caitlin Hanna, about grief, mental health, and neurodiversity. Caitlin discusses her art as therapy, creating zines, and the challenges of emotional expression in art.

Alex discusses his approach to 2025 and most definitely doesn’t make any New Year’s resolutions. He rants quite a lot but also says lots of nice, calming things too.

Alex talks to Rob Parkinson aka The Painting Nomad about his epic artistic odysseys across the UK, flat horizon deficiently, the healing powers of the great outdoors, and using art to fund the nomadic lifestyle.

Alex revisits the first 6 months, 25 episodes and 495 minutes of the podcast. In part 2 Alex recaps and remembers the remaining episodes of 2024 and tells us of his outlook for 2025.

Alex talks about the intersection between art, science, maths and technology with artist Mark Burden. In this eclectic chat they discuss Alan Turing, AI, beauty in the mundane, art across multiple mediums, the metaphysics of walking, Christmas cards and how he used art to help recover from burnout.

Alex revisits the first 6 months, 25 episodes and 495 minutes of the podcast. In part one he recounts the circumstances that lead to him starting the podcast, and revisits the first 9 episodes.

Alex takes aim at the evils and excesses of art speak via Tolstoy, Artificial Intelligence, and the science of Bullshit.