The Warrior Artist

Welcome back to The Warrior Artist! After some time away, host Éadaoin Glynn is back with a personal catch-up episode covering everything that's been happening in her practice: a new studio, art education, mentorship, and an upcoming solo exhibition.
In this episode:
Eadaoin shares why having a clear goal is one of the most important tools in an artist's practice, and walks us through the big moves she's made over the past year:
A Purpose-Built StudioAfter a year in her first dedicated studio space (a prefabricated garden room with high walls, overhead windows, and yes, a sink), Éadaoin reflects on how separating her practice from her home life has been a genuine game-changer.
The RHA School, DublinEadaoin enrolled in the part-time Painting Resolution programme at the RHA School in Dublin, one day a week. She shares what group crits feel like for the first time (nerve-wracking!), the value of articulating your work out loud, and a standout comparative study exercise, which led to a surprising realisation: her work had drifted from the abstract quality she actually loves.
Mentorship with Vanessa JonesThrough the RHA programme, Eadaoin was paired with painting mentor Vanessa Jones, a lecturer at NCAD. Their regular Zoom sessions provided invaluable outside perspective.
Solo Exhibition: The Slow Moon ClimbsEadaoin is preparing for a solo show, The Slow Moon Climbs, at the Backwater Artists Group, Cork, opening October 2026, working with Cork-based curator Kim Crowley. The exhibition explores the visibility of women's bodies as they age, including perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause, and ageing more broadly. The work began autobiographically and has since expanded into something more collective, shaped by an anonymous online survey inviting others to share their own experiences.
The WorkEadaoin talks through her materials and process: acrylic on raw and primed canvas, the unpredictability of staining and pigment movement, her use of colour as emotional shorthand, and her most recent paintings, beginning with abstract grounds of tide-mark pigment onto which she then positions the body.
Contribute to the online SurveyIf you have 10 minutes and would like to share your anonymous experience of perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause, or ageing, whether positive, negative, or uncertain, Éadaoin would love to hear from you. Your words will feed directly into her work.
👉 [⁠⁠Link to survey⁠⁠]
You can also find the link on Instagram: ⁠⁠@eadaoin_glynn⁠⁠
Next episode: Instagram for artists, a saner approach. Don't miss it.
Thank you for listening. Wherever you are, whatever you're making — you are a Warrior Artist.

Jo Melvin is a professor in fine arts and feminisms at Chelsea College of Art in London, director and curator of the Barry Flanagan estate. Jo is also an art historian, a writer, a lecturer, a filmmaker, a curator and an exhibition maker.
"I speak as a woman who wears many hats, academic, scholar, teacher, mother, alongside the simultaneous development of my artistic, curatorial and exhibition making practices."
In this episode of The Warrior Artist, Jo Melvin chats to Éadaoin Glynn about:
Ending up in art school 'by default'
Steering her own path in art school
How she approached and met artists who inspired her
Her approach to curating and exhibition making
Teaching
Meeting Barry Flanagan and curating his work
Meeting Marion Milner, Francis Bacon and Lucy Lippard
Her advice to artists
Her love of film and her own creative practice

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Podcast edited by Bren Russell of Podland.

Leah Hewson is an abstract artist who works in layers of complex patterns, in vibrant neon colours. She studied in Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design. She has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions in the RHA and Hillsboro. Fine Art. She has had residencies in New York, LA Berlin and Dublin. She has won several awards, including the whites award for painting in the RHA. Her work is in many public collection and has also been auctioned at Sotheby's
In this episode of The Warrior Artist Podcast, Leah chats to host Éadaoin Glynn about :
Interning with Sean Scully in New York moved her directly into abstraction
Collaborations enable to give up control and access creativity
Why she enjoys working in a variety of mediums
Her intuitive painting process and painting in the 'flow state'
Avoiding the comfort zone and challenging herself
Her advice for artists
Commercial commissions and being outside the gallery system
Having a painting auctioned at Sothebys London
Mural painting
Having an authentic voice and the importance of discipline.
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Podcast Edited by Bren Russell of Podland

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Ciara Rodgers, a visual artist based in Cork City who works from her studio at Backwater Artists Group. She has a BA and MA from Crawford College of Art and Design and works in an expanded drawing practice which includes polaroid photography, installation and performance.  Her work is often site specific, with the defunct and disappearing architecture of the urban landscape as her starting point.
Ciara discusses:
How the frustration of COVID lockdown forced her to explore new areas in her practice
Her love of the unpredictability of Polaroid photography
Her public practice vs her private practice
Performance drawing
How the urban environment inspires herHer colour palette inspired by her 1980s childhood
How she nurtures her practice and balances all her different mediums
Balancing two teaching jobs with her studio practice
Taking holidays from social media
How she handles rejection
The best advice she received as an art student
Her advice for emerging artists

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See Éadaoin's work on her website and Instagram.
See Ciara's work on her website and Instagram.
This episode was edited by Podland

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Leah Beggs, a visual artist based in Galway.

Her work is semi-abstract landscapes and she is represented by the Solomon Gallery in Dublin and the Kenny Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway.

A graduate of Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, her work is in public collections including the Department of an Taoiseach, Trinity College Dublin and the National Concert Hall.

Leah discusses:

Her intuitive painting process and 'the crap pile'

How moving to Connemara impacted her work

How interior design and visual art are mutually beneficial industries

The importance of having a studio

Working with galleries

The importance of being professional

the challenges of balancing family time, administration and her painting practice

Rejection

Wandhanger hanging system

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Follow Éadaoin Glynn and Leah Beggs on Instagram.