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Mark Haddon and Tai Shan Schierenberg

Only Artists Series 4

Writer Mark Haddon meets portrait and landscape artist Tai Shan Schierenberg to talk about the connection between painting, short stories and creative flow.

The writer Mark Haddon meets the portrait and landscape artist Tai Shan Schierenberg. They talk about the connection between painting and short stories, capturing the English landscape and creative flow.

Mark's best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time has won numerous awards and become an internationally successful play. Most recently he published his first ever collection of short stories called The Pier Falls.

Tai Shan Schierenberg won the National Portrait Gallery's Portraiture Award in 1989, and the Ondaatje Prize in 2011. His works hang in the National Portrait Gallery and notable sitters include the Queen with Prince Philip, Seamus Heaney and Stephen Hawking.

Producer: Clare Walker.

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28 minutes

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Wed 28 Feb 2018 21:30
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    Only Artists brings two artists together to talk about their creative work.