Found Sound for January: Tabby Booth

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4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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For January’s episode, the first of 2026, Alice Boyd meets artist, illustrator and curator Tabby Booth at her studio in Falmouth, Cornwall. They talk outsider art, re-connecting with your creativity and retreating into the cave - meanwhile meeting Raisin, Tabby's rescue pigeon. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people keeping heritage crafts alive. They are part of As the Season Turns, an award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns. I'm Leah Lainards and I'm delighted to introduce this
0:11.8	Found Sound for January, created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd. Found Sounds is back for
0:20.3	26 with another 12 episodes, each released on the
0:24.8	Middle Friday of the month. Across the year, Alice will be traveling across the UK and
0:30.9	Ireland to meet people inspired by heritage crafts, folklore and the landscape, creating a sonic scrapbook of their practice.
0:41.2	For January's episode, Alice meets artist, illustrator and curator Tabby Booth in her studio
0:48.0	in Cornwall. Tabby's work traverses the world of illustration and traditional folk art, creating characterful
0:55.9	silhouettes inspired by beasts, folklore, and the sea. As well as creating her own artwork,
1:03.4	she and her husband Hessey founded the Sailor's Jail Art Gallery in Falmouth. You may wish to pause
1:10.3	the podcast here for a moment while you find
1:13.2	somewhere warm and quiet to close your eyes, sit back and settle down into this month's
1:19.7	found sound. Tabby, could you introduce yourself and describe your work?
1:45.2	Hi, I'm Tabby Bood and I'm an artist Tabi, could you introduce yourself and describe your work?
1:50.0	Hi, I'm Tabby Bood and I'm an artist, illustrator and curator.
1:54.6	And we're currently in your beautiful studio overlooking the sea.
1:58.8	It's very rainy outside and it's kind of a mist over the sea.
2:02.6	Can you describe the room we're in and what we're looking at? So this is actually our converted garage, which is on the side of our bungalow in Cornwall.
2:08.6	I didn't have a studio for a long time and I was always dreaming of having this beautiful studio at the sea view
2:15.6	and one day I was just looking outside.
2:18.3	And I was like, we literally have this garage on the side of our house.
2:21.0	So we converted it and Hesi built a wall down the middle.
2:24.2	And he took the back half at his workshop studio.
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