Jul 22, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
In this week's Sonder episode, we get to know artist Beth Tidmarsh a little better beyond the sketchbook! We chat about balancing a career in the NHS with a growing creative business, the places that…
Beth TidmarshGuest
Joss StewardsonHost
Rosie RussellHost
There's the NHS, there's the drawings, you know, you've got a lot on your plate.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into the world of art and drawing buildings.
If you go back through, so even me and my mum, my mum's kept loads of things from when I was at primary school.
Do you remember those tea towels that you used to make when you're at school and you'd say, you know, you'd draw yourself, you'd say your name, you'd say what you wanted to be.
And I guess it's just something that I maybe had a bit of an affinity for when I was younger.
And then it just, it was something I did all the way through school until about GCSE time, in which I kind of just got sucked into the whole, you know, you need to get a proper job, you need to study maths, you need to study science.
So I think that took the love out of it for me a little bit, but I'd still say it's always been in the background.
And what was it that reignited that love for you as to why you're now doing a lot more art than you used to?
So it's something I basically didn't do for years and years and years once I started working in healthcare.
And to be fair, it was probably during COVID where we found ourselves with all of this free time and not quite knowing what to do with it.
So you went from school, you said you had this huge gap where you didn't express yourself through art.
There's the NHS, there's the drawings, you know, you've got a lot on your plate.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into the world of art and drawing buildings.
If you go back through, so even me and my mum, my mum's kept loads of things from when I was at primary school.
Do you remember those tea towels that you used to make when you're at school and you'd say, you know, you'd draw yourself, you'd say your name, you'd say what you wanted to be.
And I guess it's just something that I maybe had a bit of an affinity for when I was younger.
And then it just, it was something I did all the way through school until about GCSE time, in which I kind of just got sucked into the whole, you know, you need to get a proper job, you need to study maths, you need to study science.
So I think that took the love out of it for me a little bit, but I'd still say it's always been in the background.
And what was it that reignited that love for you as to why you're now doing a lot more art than you used to?
So it's something I basically didn't do for years and years and years once I started working in healthcare.
And to be fair, it was probably during COVID where we found ourselves with all of this free time and not quite knowing what to do with it.
So you went from school, you said you had this huge gap where you didn't express yourself through art.
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