We recorded this episode, the first in our new Enchantment season, live at Red Lion Books in Colchester as part of Sluice [Vernacular] - the latest interation of the artist led organisation's expo.

Our guest for the episode is Hayley Lock, an artist whose interests lie in the occult and its intersection with female otherness. Her chosen cultural artifact is a mystical mirror, reputedly owned by Elizabeth I's court astronomer John Dee, which is currently housed in the British Museum.

Hayley talks about working with and under hypnosis, the Essex witch trials, and finding witch marks in the windmill attached to her house on the Suffolk/Norfolk borders. Not quite coincidentally Witch Marks is also the name of Transition Gallery's exhibition at The Minories in Colchester which took part over Sluice weekend (14-16 June 2024) and featured Hayley's artworks alongside work by six other artists.

Cathy Lomax and Jennifer Caroline Campbell talk to Mississippi born actor/director Jaclyn Bethany about Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie.

This is the latest episode in our Biography series – The Glass Menagerie is inspired by Williams own life and he based the narrator, Tom, on himself. We discuss Jaclyn's experiences of playing Laura (a character inspired by Williams' sister Rose), her participation in a recent production of The Pretty Trap (an early version of The Glass Menagerie) and her new film Tell That to the Winter Sea. We also talk about the latest Tennessee Williams issue of Arty magazine which is edited by Jaclyn and Cathy, and the Transition Gallery exhibition Hard Candy which includes Williams inspired work by Cathy, Jennifer and five other artists.

Cathy Lomax and Jennifer Caroline Campbell talk to writer and artist Jennifer Higgie about her most recent book The Other Side: A Journey into Women Art and the Spirit World. 

This is the latest episode in our Biography series and we discuss the way the book is structured around elements of memoir. The conversation takes in The Dark Monarch, weaving, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Georgiana Houghton, conspiracy theories, Annie Besant, Ithell Colquhoun and much more!

The painting on the cover of The Other Side is by Donna Huddleston