Ben Luke

And obviously distemper has that quality about it.

Is it about sort of the different method allows you different forms of thinking space in a way about what you're doing?

So you're involved in the making.

There's a completely different conception of time as you would have with oil.

But there's something about those pauses or the sort of structure of time that makes you think differently about how you're going to make the image ultimately.

You've already talked about Talar and Peter Doig there, but which contemporary artist do you most admire?

But do you feel like you're in sort of dialogue in a way with those painters?

I mean, of course, you have talked to Peter on record, for instance.

But there's a kind of to and fro, which is informal.

It's not like Matisse and Picasso almost kind of responding to each other through paint.

But there's a sense in which there is a kind of open dialogue there with other painters that work here today.

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New guides are added regularly, and recent additions include the official guide to the Venice Biennale of Art in 2026, which is now live and will continue to be updated once the Biennale opens on the 9th of May and through to its conclusion on the 22nd of November.

Look out for guides to various national pavilions at the Biennale, launching in early May.

Also on Bloomberg Connects are several UK museums in which Andrew Cranston has had exhibitions, including the Hepworth Wakefield, the Peer Arts Centre in Strongness, Scotland, and the Hoban Museum in Bath.

On the Hoban Guide, you can listen to the fashion designer Zandra Rhodes talk about numerous items in the exhibition of her work, which continues until 10 May 2026.

You can also read, watch and listen to the stories of key items in the Hoban's collection.

Features include those on past exhibitions, among them Andrew Cranston's exhibition with Winifred Nicholson called Dreams of the Everyday, and you can take a Bridgerton tour with Adjoa Andoh, who plays Lady Danbury in the Netflix series.

The exterior of the Hoban is used as a location for Lady Danbury's house in the programme.