{"podcast":{"title":"Artful Painter","slug":"artful-painter-72740","podcast_index_feed_id":72740,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/artful-painter/","website_url":"https://theartfulpainter.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/5ce797c7-5bce-41af-bdfa-fdc2e2a7a630/artful-painter-cover-art-v2.jpg","author":"Carl Olson","episode_count":79,"summary":"Art lessons for artists, collectors, and people who love art.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T08:19:46.478418+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/artful-painter-72740"},"episode":{"title":"Thomas Windsor - From Heart to Brush","slug":"thomas-windsor-from-heart-to-brush","published_at":"2026-05-21T15:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/artful-painter-72740/thomas-windsor-from-heart-to-brush","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/artful-painter-72740","url":"https://theartfulpainter.com/thomas-windsor-78","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/be364b66-70b2-460d-8d4f-82407c448bdf.mp3","summary":"Doom scrolling on YouTube may usually be a waste of time but occasionally you stumble across a real, hidden gem. That happened to me a few weeks ago. I like watching YouTube videos about art and art history (and, truthfully, many other subjects). You know the way YouTube works - it takes your watch history and tries to predict other videos you might want to watch. YouTube wants you to keep watching videos - forever would be ideal for them. This was the case with my guest in this episode of The Artful Painter . YouTube suggested to me a video on a channel called Painting Therapy , by artist and cinematographer Thomas Windsor . That expression - painting therapy - hooked me. I clicked, and I watched, and I watched, and I watched. YouTube’s algorithm was happy, and I was enthralled by what I saw and heard as Thomas painted on camera. The binge has started and I kept watching and listening to Thomas. At one point, I left one of his videos playing as I worked on a large painting. I could not see what he was doing so I just listened to him talking in the background. I usually find it highly distracting to paint with words sounding off in the background. The words through me off so it’s something I rarely ever do. I can’t listen to podcasts while I paint, nor can I listen to songs with vocals. It’s weird I know - but that’s just me. But Thomas was an exception to the rule. After this experience, I knew I had to have Thomas Windsor on the podcast. I reached out to him and he graciously accepted. So, I’m happy to share with you our conversation in this edition of The Artful Painter. Wow! I learned a lot about Thomas in this conversation. Turns out, his day job is running a film production company. He is a cinematographer and produces commercial videos. Painting is a side-callin…","meta_description":"Doom scrolling on YouTube may usually be a waste of time but occasionally you stumble across a real, hidden gem. That happened to me a few weeks ago. I li…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3767,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/artful-painter-72740/episodes/thomas-windsor-from-heart-to-brush/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/artful-painter-72740/thomas-windsor-from-heart-to-brush.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}