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Notes On A Painting

Notes On A Painting

Notes On A Painting 63 Episodes May 15, 2026

Notes On A Painting is a weekly art podcast hosted by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Each episode, one of them chooses and researches a painting, and they discuss it together, exploring their differing and overlapping tastes across art history. The show covers a wide range of paintings, offering insights from both a practitioner's and a historian's perspective.

Episodes

Episode 63: Louis Finson, The Four Elements, 1611
Episode 63: Louis Finson, The Four Elements, 1611 May 15, 2026 00:31:47 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a dramatic Caravaggesque work by Louis Finson.
Episode 62: Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628
Episode 62: Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628 May 8, 2026 00:32:00 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a religious work by the Spanish Golden Age master, Francisco de Zurbarán.
Episode 61: Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503
Episode 61: Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503 May 1, 2026 00:38:23 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week an iconic watercolour work by Albrecht Dürer.
Episode 60: Sarah Miriam Peale, Susan Avery, 1821
Episode 60: Sarah Miriam Peale, Susan Avery, 1821 Apr 17, 2026 00:41:33 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss a work by the first successful female painter in the USA.
Episode 59: Kamal-ol-Molk, Mirror Hall, 1876
Episode 59: Kamal-ol-Molk, Mirror Hall, 1876 Apr 9, 2026 00:27:24 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss on of Kamal-ol-Molks most famous works.
Episode 58: Edwin Landseer, Monarch of the Glen, 1851
Episode 58: Edwin Landseer, Monarch of the Glen, 1851 Apr 2, 2026 00:32:40 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss the iconic "Monarch of the Glen" by Edwin Landseer.
Episode 57: Fra Angelico, The Mocking of Christ 1441
Episode 57: Fra Angelico, The Mocking of Christ 1441 Mar 27, 2026 00:32:52 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at one of Fra Angelico's most renown frescos
Episode 56: Judith Leyster, The Happy Couple, 1630
Episode 56: Judith Leyster, The Happy Couple, 1630 Mar 20, 2026 00:38:11 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we discuss the Dutch Golden Age painter, Judith Leyster.
Episode 55: Simeon Solomon, Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864
Episode 55: Simeon Solomon, Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864 Mar 13, 2026 00:34:08 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week a small watercolour by Simeon Solomon, tackling a controversial subject matter for its time.
Episode 54: Thomas Gainsborough, Cornard Wood, 1748
Episode 54: Thomas Gainsborough, Cornard Wood, 1748 Mar 6, 2026 00:36:55 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and art historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at an early landscape painting by one of Britain's greatest landscape painters Thomas Gainsborough.
Episode 53: Bartholomaeus Spranger, Hermaphroditus and the Nymph, 1580-82
Episode 53: Bartholomaeus Spranger, Hermaphroditus and the Nymph, 1580-82 Feb 27, 2026 00:36:11 Notes On A Painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art. This week we look at a work depicting one of Ovids Metamorphoses.
Episode 52: Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass (Crawford Notch), 1839
Episode 52: Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass (Crawford Notch), 1839 Feb 19, 2026 00:36:11 Notes on a painting is a podcast by artist Olivia Kemp and Art Historian Esme Garlake. Together each week we will discuss a painting that one of us has chosen and researched. Our choices of painting will reflect where our tastes differ and overlap across the history of art . This week we look at one of American artist, Thomas Cole's greatest paintings.

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