How to paint Paris, with an artist in his studio

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Do you want a peek behind the scenes of artist life on the Left Bank of Paris?

Well it's your lucky day! Today on the podcast it's renowned artist Alex Hillkurtz, who shares a little about his method, from inside his Left Bank chambre de bonne studio.

I first met Alex when his work was on exhibit at the Orangerie in the Luxembourg Gardens and I'm already planning my visit to see his work in the Grand Palais this year.

You can find more about Alex on his website here, in advance, or join his nearly 100,000 Instagram followers here.

If you're a Patreon member, I hope you've already seen our tour of his workplace and his view over the sixth arrondissement of Paris. If not, watch the replay by signing up here.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody out there in listener world. You are listening to the Earful Tau podcast. We've been doing
0:05.8	this for about five years now. Two million downloads. Who would have thought it? This is a show about
0:12.2	Paris. A show about France. My name's Oliver G. And every week I interview somebody interesting
0:18.7	around Paris to hear their story and how they see Paris.
0:23.6	And that's exactly what it is today.
0:26.0	Alex Hilkirt, my guest, an artist, how he sees Paris is something that comes in a lot in the
0:33.7	second half of the interview.
0:35.2	You're talking about light, how he paints it.
0:37.3	He's a watercolor artist.
0:38.7	He's also a storyboard artist.
0:41.8	I got kind of sidetracked on that because I found it really fascinating at the beginning.
0:45.6	But mostly we talk about his art.
0:47.9	And I can recommend if you want to get an idea of what this guy does.
0:52.7	As you're listening, check him out on Instagram, Hillcurtz.
0:56.2	So just H-I-L-L-L-K-U-R-T-Z or Z, if you prefer, Hill-Kurtz.
1:03.6	And maybe you'll become one of his new followers.
1:06.3	93,200.
1:08.2	I'm looking at it as we speak.
1:10.1	Check him out.
1:10.7	Check out his website. It's at the top of the
1:12.1	Instagram page. But more info on all that at the end of the episode where I'm also going to
1:17.1	read out a couple reviews that you guys were sent in. But first, I note this show brought to you
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