Black Ivory Podcast 9th April 2026

Yesterday's Black Ivory Podcast. @ronthroop Ron Throop, Emma Pugmire and myself. Amongst other things, we talk about:
A new game: Guess the animal
Emma's next exhibition at Millden Art Society on May 2nd and a look at her most recent paintings.
Mike's road kill taxidermy
Three new Blond Card characters including makwafilms
Flying all the way to the moon, only to fly back without landing
Emma going AWOL last week
MIT's art business course and the far superior information we're learning from @offgridlife
My new series of flag paintings, instructing people who don't read English how to get a free painting from my Camden Market art display.
Episode 2 of The Johnstone Chats Podcast being a vast improvement on the first.
Giving art away on the bus
Ron's next Free Art Frees Art display in Rochester
Now Free Art Frees Art is going global, the need to combine all its activity into one online presention and film.
How I did the wrong kind of work in Thailand, and how it means that I'm now having to play catch up by making hundreds of small paintings, and shelving most other work in the meantime.
We broadcast the Black Ivory Podcast every Thursday at 7pm UK time on Ron Throop's Substack then upload the recording on YouTube.