My Crazy Artist Life Lisa Schroder and Kat Hamilton

In this weeks podcast @kathamiltonart interviews abstract figurative artist @anahitaamouzegarart. You will love her colourful and vibrant figurative paintings. Anahita, speaks to us very openly about the struggle that she had when first arriving in Australia as a refugee from Iran. She talks about how art became part of her healing process and her dedication to her art meant that she just kept showing up and putting her work out there. You will see how in just a few short years Anahita has bu...

In this episode @Kathamiltonart interviews Tasmanian artist @fiona.francois.art.Fiona is a realist artist who specialicialises in large scale highly detailed pencil and graphite drawings. You will love hearing her story of how she started in her art career, how she approaches art as a business as well as how offering prints in her business has been a key turning point. You will love hearing about how fiona really narrowed down her style and the inspiration behind her popular Zodiac seri...

This week @kathamiltonart had the incredible privilege of interviewing the amazing @danijelakrhapurssey who is the CoFounder & Editor-in-Chief of the Australian based, international art magazine @beautifulbizarremagazine. In this episode you will get to hear how Danijela turned her incredible love of art, into a thriving art community and eventually a internationally reviewed magazine. Danijela tells us how she leveraged key social media moments in order to grow her community and then too...

Artist burnout is a real thing. So many artist experience it at some point in their careers and it goes beyond that physical tiredness that happens when you have a long week. We loose our energy, our mood and that passion that we used to have to art. Self made artists are particularly susceptible to Artist burnout with some sources saying that it is at least 66% for artists within their lifetime.It probably comes down to the constant pressure to create the next masterpiece on top of recording...

This week @lisamajdesigns and @kathamiltonart hilariously chat about kat's recent road trip to Armidale for the @beautifulbizarremagazine exhibition at @neramuseum called “Interconnected”. If you have ever wondered what happens on an artist road trip then you will love this very funny episode. From epic travels, deserted country roads, breakdowns, weirdo taxi drivers and then meeting so many fabulous artists and meeting the editor of the Beautiful Bizarre magazine. This road trip is one that ...

It’s Archibald prize time! For artist’s and art lovers all over Australia it’s that special time of year, where art becomes the talking point and everybody has the chance to become an art critic.As one of the best known (and oldest) art prizes in Australia, it has built it’s own deserving fan base and in this weeks podcast @lisamajdesings chats with Arts Writer and friend Bree Di Mattina @meandmy2guys about everything Archibald. This year @blakdouglas was announced the incredible honour of wi...