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You are listening to The Savvy Painter Podcast episode 11.

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Welcome to the Savvy Painter Podcast.

The Podcast for Artists who mean business. the Welcome to this edition of the Savvy Painter Podcast.

This week's episode we have Susan Abbott.

Susan Abbott is a painter from Vermont.

She was a wonderful person to talk to,

and she got me really thinking about why we make art

and what we can learn for it. So I'm going to jump right in. Here's an interview with

Susan Abbott and enjoy. Thank you Susan Susan, so much for being on the show with me.

Oh, my pleasure, Andrews.

Can you tell me a little bit about when you started out as an artist?

I know you graduated from the Hoffberger School of Painting, but what was it like for you when you were first starting out?

It was tough. I mean, I think that transitional period when you leave Art School, and the Hoffberger school was a graduate program and I'd

gone to art school when I was 16. It was really all I wanted to do. I dropped out of high school

in fact because I just wanted to get on with doing

art study and so there really wasn't anything else I wanted to do or study and if you go to

art school it's like going to trade school so that's kind of all you're really qualified to do in some respects

I need get at although I shouldn't say that because I think it's good training in many ways for lots of things, but it's very specialized training.

And I guess I was fortunate in that all I ever wanted to do was paint, but that's still, it's

still a difficult transition even if you don't have anything else kind of tugging on you.

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