S5: Turning craft into commerce, with Rob Ryan, Artist
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Rob Ryan, an artist renowned for his intricate papercuttings. His artwork has featured in Vogue, Elle, and Stylist. One year he created 28 Liberty Christmas windows which started a journey where Rob's work began to be seen by the masses. He has collaborated with Alex Monroe, Tatty Devine and none other than Sir Paul Smith.
In this episode, Holly and Rob discuss his childhood, how he discovered his talents at the RCA, to then after a hard 20 years trying to make a living out of his art, the difficult choice he made, to allow his art to be for the masses.
Recorded live, in a London church with the light streaming through the stained glass windows, as he told his story - this episode was personally an extra special and spiritual one.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration |
| 0:06.2 | founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. I'm the UK Ambassador of |
| 0:11.4 | of Creative Small Businesses. |
| 0:13.7 | I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy, fulfilled life, |
| 0:20.3 | and my dream is to help everyone start theirs. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement. |
| 0:29.0 | And in my view, the greatest way to do this is by sharing stories. |
| 0:33.6 | So I've reached out to all my favorite small businesses, |
| 0:37.0 | acclaimed entrepreneurs, and those who just simply inspire me |
| 0:41.8 | and ask them to share theirs. With thanks to our sponsor |
| 0:45.3 | NatWest who have helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my conversations |
| 0:51.2 | of inspiration. |
| 0:53.0 | Bough your head and let your islands close on down. |
| 0:58.0 | This week we have a very special conversations of inspiration. |
| 1:02.0 | Not only is it our 50th episode, but it was recorded |
| 1:06.1 | live at St Mary's Church in Marlobone, London as part of the most incredible day |
| 1:11.5 | in the Small Business calendar, the Congregation of Inspiration 2019. |
| 1:17.0 | I was lucky enough to interview the legendary Rob Bryan for this most special episode and special is exactly what it turned out to be. |
| 1:27.7 | His intricate paper cuttings ignites huge joy and great passion within me. I've continued to follow and adore his work |
| 1:36.0 | for over 20 years now and I couldn't believe that I got lucky enough to hear his |
| 1:41.8 | journey firsthand. We spoke about his childhood, how he discovered |
| 1:46.3 | his talents at the RCA, to then, after a hard 20 years trying to make a living out of his art, the difficult decision he made to allow his |
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