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The Portraitists

Nick Guacheta"

Casual conversations with portrait & figurative artists. Hosted by Nick Guacheta".

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01:05:32

Beau Carnes, 7/13/25

The Portraitists ·

2025/07/14

A conversation with Beau Carnes, an American figurative artist currently practicing in Denver, Colorado. Carnes grew up as an enthusiast of painters and paintings, however, dedicated himself to the pursuit of music, and later creative marketing. In both of these disciples, Carnes developed an appreciation for the execution of the intent via a process of technical know-how. Carnes was able to prove to himself that a craft could be learned and mastered if fundamentals were tediously studied and

01:48:43

Johanna Bath, 6/24/25

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2025/06/24

A conversation withJohanna Bath, a German figurative artist currently practicing in Hamm, Germany. After stumbling into visual art as a young adult, Bath’s life took a turn that suspended her from accessing both her true emotions and the potential of her full efforts. Bath would eventually liberate herself from these circumstances - dedicated to her practice, and dedicated to her authenticity. Bath’s work focuses on sensation, recollection, and the capture of ‘je ne sais quoi’. @fraeulein_bath

01:31:45

Raul Sisniega, 1/27/25

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2025/01/28

A conversation with Raul Sisniega, a Mexican figurative artist currently in residency in Roswell, New Mexico. Sisniega was raised in Mexico City - his parents spurred him to follow a straight and narrow path to white-collardom. Sisneiga’s relationship with his parent’s expectation and his artistic practice faced its reckoning in his mid-twenties, when he decided to drop out of law school and pursue an education in graphic design. This decision was still a concession, and finally, Sisniega’s impulse

01:30:01

Diego Zelaya, 1/22/25

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2025/01/24

A conversation with Diego Zelaya, a Mexican figurative artist currently practicing in Mexico City. Zelaya had a unique upbringing - the 3rd and youngest son of revolutionaries-turned-scholars. Zelaya’s family highly prioritized education, and at the age of 16, Zelaya transplanted to a niche institution in the UK. While there, Zelaya’s interest in visual arts flourished amongst the collections of Britain. Zelaya was able to influence his academy to develop a more robust arts curriculum - including

01:28:43

Trevor Wisecup, 1/21/25

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2025/01/22

A conversation with Trevor Wisecup, a Virginian photographer currently practicing in New York City, New York. Wisecup grew up with an interest in visual arts, first captivated by the visuals and story-telling of video games. Wisecup’s aesthetic would be developed by a love for vintage artifacts - from VHS tapes, to thrifted suites, to analog cameras. After unintentionally relocating to New York city, a coincidence-of-sorts put the first rolls of film in his hands. Wisecup would continue forward

00:37:07

Itzamna Reyes, 1/20/25

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2025/01/21

A conversation with Itzamna Reyes, a Mexican figurative artist currently practicing in Mexico City. Reyes’ childhood dream of becoming an artist was supported by his family - particularly his grandmother who had a friendship with a career artist. From humble begins, to graduating art college, Reyes was evolving as quickly as Mexico City around him - yet his artistic focus was unclear. Reyes took an internship at a psychiatric clinic as an artistic recreation instructor - and each morning, on his

01:42:33

Yasmine Elgamal, 1/14/25

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2025/01/14

A conversation with Yasmine Elgamal, a Roman figurative artist currently practicing in Mecklenburg, Germany. Elgamal was introduced to studio art as a young student, and contrary to the pessimism of the peers of her working class suburb, was steadfast in her ambition to become an artist. Disillusioned with the philosophies of the academy system, Elgamal forged her own path - reading keystones of art method, and participating in unorthodox workshops - such as comic art courses to study traditional

01:34:20

Ramiro Sanchez, 1/8/25

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2025/01/08

A conversation with Ramiro Sanchez, an Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist currently practicing in Florence, Italy. Sanchez began his creative career as a gifted music student, participating in choir and the viola at a selective Jesuit school in Venezuela, Niños Cantores del Zulia. Inspired by the rich practice of Latin-American muralism, Sanchez pivoted to visual arts at the age of 13. Through extreme determination, and with only a gifted plane ticket, Sanchez relocated to study at Accademia di

01:04:34

Amy Dury, 9/27/24

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2024/09/28

A conversation with Amy Dury, an English figurative artist currently practicing in Brighton, England. Dury’s art education was detoured in her youth, but through a series of adventures Dury graduated from her preferred Glasgow School of Art with a degree in printmaking. Like many artists, Dury’s art career was suspended by the responsibilities of parenthood and sourcing a stable income, but when Dury saw the opportunity to teach painting at Varndean College in Brighton, England - she reignited her

00:56:43

Aysha Nagieva, 9/11/24

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2024/09/11

A conversation with Aysha Nagieva, a Russian-born artist living and practicing in London, England. Nagieva spent her early girlhood in Moscow, discomforted by the rigidity of the traditional Russian artistic expectation. After transplanting to London, Nagieva’s interest in unfettered expression and fashion design developed into an artistic practice that nods to her Russian roots, while expanding beyond the boundaries of the academy. Nagieva hijacks the motif of the russian doll - transplanting it

01:29:57

Lorenna Lannes, 8/18/24

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2024/08/19

A conversation with Lorenna Lannes, a Brazilian figurative artist practicing in New York, New York. Lannes’ work focuses primarily on capturing and exploring the impression of covert signals of emotion and intention - the “energy” a person emits beneath verbal and physical language. To paraphrase Lannes’ description - these sub-physical signals are the most honest, and learning to interpret them can be of great utility - no more so than keeping yourself safe. @lorennalannes

01:28:11

Luke Hannam, 8/7/24

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2024/08/07

A conversation with Luke Hannam, an English figurative artist based in Rye, England. Hannam is a multidisciplinary artist - raised with a foundation in improvisational jazz - Hannam’s drawing and painting practice resemble this ‘ordered chaos’. Hannam is deeply interested in timeless motifs - the warrior, the fertility goddess; the dove of peace. As Hannam describes, the dove’s flight - it’s strength and ability - emerges from its delicacy – as so does Hannam’s images - which convey power with

01:08:29

Sonja Haroldson, 7/24/24

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2024/07/24

A conversation with Sonja Haroldson, an American figurative artist based in New York City, and currently at residence in Wilton, Connecticut. Haroldson is a multidisciplinary artist whose output spans music, sculpture, drawing, and painting. Haroldson’s two dimensional work manifests in a style similar to architectural drafting - graphic lines, economic blocking, and simplified palettes - with energetic marks and muscular impasto. Harldson’s quasi-brutalist and cerebral fashion is curiously balanced

01:33:21

Jaron Gyger, 7/12/24

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2024/07/12

A conversation with Jaron Gyger, a Swiss figurative artist currently practicing in Berlin, Germany. Gyger’s practice acts as a type of journal, illustrating life experiences or emotional anecdotes. Gyger’s works are rendered in a style that lands in the intersection of kinetic abstraction, cubism, and figurativism. Gyger’s images take an unabashed approach to genuinity, prioritizing honesty and communication over politeness or popularity. @jaron_gyger

00:54:16

Kuda Mushangi, 7/8/24

The Portraitists ·

2024/07/09

A conversation with Kuda Mushangi, a Zimbabwean-English figurative artist currently practicing in London, England. Mushangi immigrated to the UK with his family at the age of 9. Now a practicing architect, Mushangi rediscovered his boyhood passion for visual art as an escape from the rigidity of his career and its requirements. Mushangi is a relatively new painter, and his debut project is conjuring and recording the vague and vanishing memories of his early youth in Zimbabwe. Like all childhood

01:14:34

Kate Powell, 6/24/24

The Portraitists ·

2024/06/25

A conversation with Kate Powell, an American multi-disciplinary artist currently practicing between Tacoma, WA and Philadelphia, PA. Powell is a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ low-residency MFA class of 2024. Powell’s creative output spans music, sculpture, drawing, and painting. Powell’s subjects span portraiture, first-person observation, and still lifes of found objects. Binding this frenzy of work, a thread of jovial curiosity and intense

01:05:24

Matt Murphy, 6/19/24

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2024/06/19

A conversation with Matt Murphy, an English portrait painter currently practicing in Brighton, England. After a childhood fascination with art, and graduating A-Levels, Murphy took a long-term hiatus from his practice. While living in Vietnam, marooned by the Covid Pandemic, Murphy began working with the regionally popular media, water colors. This new media inspired a different process, which carried onto Murphy’s work with oils. Red and gazing, Murphy’s subjects appear through the flowing, loose

01:12:58

Debora Koo, 6/11/24

The Portraitists ·

2024/06/13

A conversation with Debora Koo, a Korean-American figurative painter currently practicing in Charlotte, North Carolina. Koo received her B.A at Smith College in Massachusetts, and her M.F.A. from Ewha University in Seoul, Korea. Koo’s work explores themes of otherism, romantic despair, and nostalgia. Koo’s iconic cake paintings offer a sense of indulgence and familiarity that pull the viewer into a sensatory memory like a kept polaroid. Koo's work has been exhibited in Ulsan, Korean, London, New

01:17:40

Cory Swenson-Scott, 6/7/24

The Portraitists ·

2024/06/09

A conversation with Cory Swenson-Scott, an American figurative painter practicing in California and abroad. Swenson-Scott received his Master of Fine Art from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and has collected an expansive series of accolades in the California area, including a repeat annual showcase at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Swenson-Scott has been awarded various residencies which allow him to practice in destinations such as Sweden, Mexico, and Japan. Both at home,

01:03:18

Stelios Pupet, 6/7/24

The Portraitists ·

2024/06/07

A conversation with Stelios Pupet, a Greek figurative artist that practices in Athens, Greece. Pupet developed his artistic practice as a young graffiti artist running from the authorities in the Athenian Metro. Pupet retained these foundations as he evolved into his fine art practice. Pupet depicts the human form, often female, often obscured or masked, or tranquil in an urban/suburban gardenscape. Pupet’s recent signature is his style of rendering in bold rigid shapes, capturing a moment as it

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