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Podcast: Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House
Episode: 128. Stone, paint and the landscape - with Emily Young and Francis Hamel
Description: This week we’re talking to two artists inspired by the nature.  Â
Emily Young, hailed as Britain’s greatest living female stone sculptor, specialises in using materials from abandoned quarries and Francis Hamel is known for his portraiture and landscape paintings.Â
Emily lives and works mostly in an isolated part of Tuscany, where she free carves in reclaimed uncut natural stone, often found in abandoned quarries. She evokes beautiful ancient figures from an unknown mythology.  Her main objective is to explore the relationship of humankind and the planet through her interaction with stone. Her 25 new works in s...