On The Idle Hands Society’s latest episode, graphic designer Ryan McDonagh joins us to chat about studying art, having a disability as an artist, using art to express yourself, answering "the big question" using text in art, social media algorithms, the last three things we listened to, designing album covers, making authentic videos, trying new things.

Dan and Paul round up 2023’s highlights in their end-of-year review.

This week, Sìle Walsh talks about becoming an artist again after motherhood. She also talks about how the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year award built her confidence and how resilience is vital as a creative.

In this episode, Dan and Paul talk with the artist, Bernadett Timko. Bernie shares her struggles of coping in the COVID-19 pandemic, being creative from an early age and her early encouragement from a school teacher, she speaks with conviction about the process of painting from intuition, working from life and being a life model, her thoughts on master copies, the way she doesn’t think about the way people will perceive her work, and we consider what we’re looking for in a subject.