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Beyond The Brush

Beyond The Brush

By: Jennie Roberts & Emma Rutherford
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Welcome to Beyond The Brush, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the makeup, beauty and body art industries. Created by professional makeup publisher and educator, Emma Rutherford from Warpaint Magazine, and professional body artist and international bodypainting judge Jennie Roberts from Paintopia. The guests interviewed on this pod make fascinating subjects for all makeup and beauty obsessives including students and pros.

Previous guests have included Paul Merchant, Head of Global Makeup at pro brand Kryolan; professional makeup artist Vanessa Davies known to many as The Wigs and Makeup Manager on Instagram and who has over one million followers on Instagram alone; award-winning international fashion makeup artist and author of her Elements book - Yasmin Heinz; and Fashion and editorial photographer and owner of The Glass Factory Studio, Graham Cann.

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  • Michael Müller "I started working with the hair—incorporating it into a body painting piece because doing so allowed me to make my canvas larger."
    Aug 14 2026

    Welcome back to Beyond The Brush, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the makeup, beauty and body art industries.

    In this episode we chat to world-renowned multi talented artist Michael Müller, who has a whole host of creative skills, including bodypainting of course!

    He’s a fascinating interviewee who’s worked with a wide range of artists and brands. With a love of the avante garde, his sculptural hair creations are the perfect complement to even the most intricate bodypaint so we were delighted when he accepted our invitation to come on the Pod and tell us, and you, more about his creative work.

    This was one of the most fun interviews we’ve ever done – half in English and half in German and which also got Cat practising her speaking German again too!

    This episode's presenters are Emma Rutherford and Catriona Finlayson

    Huge thanks to our brilliant Podcast Editor George and Season Two Sponsors - Kryolan Professional Makeup who have gifted an exclusive discount code especially for Beyond The Brush listeners!

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    Valid: until Dec, 31 2026

    Browse the Kryolan shelves and use your discount code here

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    23 mins
  • Johannes Stötter: "I just had this idea without having ever seen a bodypainting photo before!"
    Aug 5 2026

    Welcome back to Beyond The Brush, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the makeup, beauty and body art industries.

    We honestly can’t believe how long ago it was when we recorded the very first season of Beyond the Brush, way back in 2021! We’re so sorry for such a long gap and thank you so much to all of you who have been asking when it’ll be back too!

    We have some brand-new Beyond the Brush podcast episodes ready at last, and as an extra treat these episodes were recorded LIVE at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria.

    In this episode we chat to previous World Bodypainting Champion and expert in bodypaint illusion, Johannes Stotter.

    With a host of awards under his belt, Johannes is well known around the world for his groundbreaking body painting.

    When his 2013 bodypaint creation of a tropical frog using five models went viral, his career rocketed into the stratosphere – and brought him to media attention all over the world, so we were incredibly excited when he accepted our invitation to be on the podcast. It's an intriguing chat full of surprises! We hope you enjoy it!

    This episode's presenters are Emma Rutherford and Catriona Finlayson

    Huge thanks to our brilliant Podcast Editor George and Season Two Sponsors - Kryolan Professional Makeup who have gifted an exclusive discount code especially for Beyond The Brush listeners!

    Code: BEYONDTHEBRUSH25
    Valid: until Dec, 31 2026

    Johannes' website

    "We'd love to hear what you thought of this episode. Drop us a message!"

    Support the show

    Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Beyond the Brush, we hope you enjoyed it! Em & Jenn xx

    Keep up to date by following our socials for extra content and behind the scenes bits and bobs.

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    29 mins
  • Graham Cann "I didn't find my artistic voice until quite late on in life"
    Sep 27 2021

    Welcome back to the last in this debut series of Beyond The Brush, although, as you'll hear, it was actually the first that we recorded!
    Our final guest is multi-published photographer, Graham Cann, who specialises in fashion, beauty, editorial and commercial work. Working in a mixture of analogue and digital imagery, he’s as comfortable on location as he is in a studio – and in fact he’s often found shooting bodypaint at exhibitions and shows.

    Jennie and Emma headed to meet Graham in his studio, The Glass Factory, the largest daylight and commercial photographic and film in Essex and find out about a boy from South London with a background in construction got into the photography game.


    "We'd love to hear what you thought of this episode. Drop us a message!"

    Support the show

    Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Beyond the Brush, we hope you enjoyed it! Em & Jenn xx

    Keep up to date by following our socials for extra content and behind the scenes bits and bobs.

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    47 mins
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