Art Stories: The Official Podcast
Behind the scenes of the global art world — from studios to showrooms.
Hosted by Sky Lilah, Art Stories: The Official Podcast takes you inside the global art world through candid conversations with artists, gallerists, and collectors shaping it. From in-studio interviews to market insights, each episode reveals the stories, ideas, and relationships that drive contemporary visual culture.
Discover emerging voices, explore the inspirations behind the work, and hear firsthand how artists build sustainable practices and connect with audiences.
Whether you're a collector seeking new talent, a gallerist watching the next wave, or an artist navigating your own journey, this podcast brings you closer to the people moving art forward.
Subscribe now to explore new perspectives, discover original work, and go behind the scenes of the art world.
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Episodes
28 episodes
Where Crystals Meet Canvas: Mys Nyx on Enchanting Art & Storytelling
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Mys Nyx, the creative force behind Night To Dawn.Mys Nyx paints vibrant, hand-crafted original artworks that masterfully blend rich storytelli...
The Beauty of Becoming: Ciara Allen on Craft, Multiplicity, and Creating Across Disciplines
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Ciara Allen, an Emmy-nominated makeup artist, painter, musician, and author who has spent 17 years crafting beauty across film, television, fashion, a...
Thorns and Light: Ruobing Liao on Painting the Inner World
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Ruobing Liao, a Toronto-based oil painter whose work combines vivid color with expressive, deeply emotional figurative forms. Through luminous palette...
In Flux: Crista Cloutier on Being an Artist in Motion
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Crista Cloutier, an American artist, writer, gallerist, and mentor whose career spans continents, disciplines, and decades of shaping how artists thin...
Into the Infinite: CGI Michael on Fractal Art and the Mathematics of Beauty
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Michael — the self-taught artist-programmer behind Fractalspace — where mathematics becomes immersive visual art.Drawing on two decades of comp...
Behind the Gallery Wall: Kaeli Yarwood on What It Takes to Get Represented
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Kaeli Yarwood...Kaeli is the gallerist at Steffich Fine Art, a gallery on Salt Spring Island founded in 1992 by her mentor Matt Steffich. Sinc...
Between Color & Memory with Iqra Adam
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Iqra Adam, a Calgary-based mixed-media artist whose work explores the balance between joy, memory, and emotion.Through a combinat...
Through the Location Scout's Lens: Adam Silver on Hollywood, Landscape, and the Art of Seeing
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Adam Silver — photographer, Hollywood location scout, and a man who has spent his life looking at the world with rare intentionality. Largely self-tau...
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Where Roots Take Color: Tessa Haywood on Travel, Heritage, and the Art of Beginning Again
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Tessa Haywood, a New Zealand-born, Port Coquitlam-based artist whose vibrant, slightly surreal paintings carry the memory of 22 countries and the intu...
Light on Water: Lara Shecter on Memory, Place & the Pacific Northwest
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Lara Shecter — Vancouver-based artist working in acrylic and mixed media, known for her luminous, resin-finished paintings rooted in the...
Get Melted: Art, Body & Transformation with Erica Marrello
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Erica Marrello, a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist whose work pushes the boundaries between painting, performance, and immersive...
Layer by Layer: The Contemplative Art of Jonathan Gomez & Confluent Studios
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we speak with Jonathan Gomez - Confluent Studios, a contemporary artist whose work transforms inner awareness into visual form. Working with traditional decorative techniques like ver...
Creating Without Boundaries: The Art of Margh
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Sara Margherita (Margh), a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto whose work explores movement, transformation, and the freedom to cr...
Through Her Lens: Stories with Sara Jimenez
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Sarah Jimenez, a videographer and photographer whose work focuses on capturing the authentic essence of the people and stories she encounters.Through both client ...
Layers of Humanity: The Art of Cathy Key
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Cathy Key, Ph.D., a British-Canadian contemporary artist known for her large-scale mixed-media portraits that explore nature, the sacred, and our shared humanity....
From Dior to Art Vancouver: The Journey of Lisa Wolfin (Part 1)
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, hosted by Sky Lilah (@skylilah), we sit down with Lisa Wolfin (@lwolfin), founder of Art Vancouver, for Part 1 of an in-depth conversation exploring her remarkable creative journey.<...
Illuminated Forms: Jorge Izaza’s Sculptural Vision
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Jorge Izaza, a Mexican-Canadian wood artist whose work explores the connection between nature, form, and illumination.Inspired by waves, mountains, contemporary a...
Little Purple People & the Art of Belonging with Kelcy Timmons Chan
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Kelcy Timmons Chan (they/them), a Cantonese Canadian American queer pop artist and mural painter based in Toronto whose work explores food as a love language.
The Gayest Lil’ Gift Shop In All The Land with Brandy
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we’re joined by Brandy, the artist behind The Gayest Lil’ Gift Shop In All The Land, a bold, joyful, and unapologetically queer creative universe celebrating LGBTQIA+ repres...
Heritage in 3D: Storytelling with Jeryce Dianingana
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we’re joined by Jeryce Claude Dianingana, a Paris-born artist of Congolese heritage creating Afro-centric 3D art across gaming, fine art, and film.Jeryce shares how his cultural r...
No Straight Lines: The Creative Path of Ray Beldner
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Ray Beldner, multidisciplinary artist, educator, and co-founder of Startup Art, whose career has never followed a straight line.Ray shares stories fr...
Piecing Life Back Together: The Art of Silvina Lanusse
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Silvina Lanusse, painter, mixed-media collagist, and storyteller through art, for a gentle, reflective conversation about memory, belonging, and the quiet act of r...
Inside the Abstract World of Angie Prime
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Angie Prime, an abstract painter based on Vancouver Island whose work is driven by an abundance of colour, texture, experimentation, and humour.Working primarily ...
Rooted in Nature: Art, Presence & Creative Flow with Rosemary Kolasa
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we sit down with Rosemary, a multidisciplinary African-Canadian artist whose creative expression flows through painting, music, and writing, deeply rooted in her connection to the...
When Paintings Come Alive: Art, Wildlife & Impact with Daniel Taylor
In this episode of the Art Stories Podcast, we’re joined by internationally recognised artist and presenter Daniel Taylor — known for his powerful, hyper-realistic paintings of critically endangered species and his long-running in...