Shortly before he turned fifty, we had the unique pleasure of spending six months with Danish artist Tal R, while he was in the process of making his grand series of nine enormous railcar-paintings, ‘Habakuk’. Watch the intimate and biographical film.

“Art is the only place I can bear disappointment,” says Danish artist Tal R, who paints sex shops and dreams of making a clay pigeon fly. Meet one of Denmark’s leading artists in this engaging and humorous interview on the nature of art.

”A painting must always move beyond its subject,” says British painter Michael Simpson, who sees the practice of painting as ”giving form to an idea.” Hear how he, David Hockney and 6 other painters work with the classical art form.

Late night reading. Photographing by the light of the moon. Finding a beautiful world at the dark bottom of a lake. The mystery of the night and of darkness attracts the eight artists featured in this video – and for very different reasons. Discover them here.

"Basically I always wanted to make art about my surroundings." Meet Danish artist Tal R in his studio for a talk about a series of paintings featuring his hometown Copenhagen in Denmark.

“We don’t get inspired by each other, we steal from each other”. See what happens when you put two artists, who are also friends, together and get them to comment on each other’s paintings.