I can't emphasise enough how much I think this is worth seeking out.
It is one of a series of documentary films, quite literally about "what artists do all day". Each artist talks about, and is illustrated doing, what they do, how they do it, why they do it, who they work with, why they bother ... and so on.
Art gets talked about a lot, all too often in dismissive terms by otherwise intelligent people, but also all too often in rather abstruse terms which can make art seem opaque to all but "experts";
rarely does one get the opportunity to hear the artists themselves speak, and even more rarely at this length.
The series does not simply focus on painting or sculpture. In some of the other episodes, practitioners of slightly more esoteric forms are focused upon.
I found Gormley's reflections particularly moving (for want of a better word), especially the words he used to close the episode:
We are here for such a short time ... and in the interests of making a true testimony to what it feels like to be alive now at the beginning of the 21st century, I am trying to make a true account