1155. A Day in the Life: What's It Really Like to Be an Artist?
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
"You have to be open to unexpected opportunities to grow your audience. When the Olympics came to Atlanta in July of 1996, a photographer friend of mine was offered a space to curate her own show. She asked me and a few other artists to exhibit as well. I created 13 new works in the span of a month after my day job in a frame shop. I sold all my paintings and that launched my art career in Atlanta."
Jennifer J L Jones is an American artist known for her elegant multi-layered glazed abstract paintings inspired by nature. Her work is exhibited and sought after worldwide by private and public collectors. Jones was born in 1971 in Alexandria, Virginia, and received her BFA from the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works full time as an exhibiting artist going on 21 years. After living in cities growing her career, Jones now resides in Port Royal, SC. When Jennifer recorded this interview, she was working on her second coffee table book, memoir and preparing for several upcoming shows.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:16.3 | Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents |
| 0:21.7 | to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. On Fridays, I |
| 0:28.2 | interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the top-ranked occupations |
| 0:33.7 | or professions who share an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do. |
| 0:39.1 | Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Jennifer J.L. Jones, and our topic, |
| 0:45.1 | A Day in the Life, what's it really like to be an artist? Welcome, Jennifer. Hello, thank you. |
| 0:51.5 | It's our pleasure. Jennifer, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
| 0:55.0 | Every day, absolutely. |
| 0:57.0 | A few words about Jennifer. |
| 0:59.0 | Jennifer J.L. Jones is an American artist known for her elegant, multi-layered, glazed, abstract |
| 1:06.0 | paintings inspired by nature. |
| 1:08.0 | Her work is exhibited and saw it after worldwide by private and public collectors. |
| 1:12.6 | She was born on March 30th, 1971 in Alexandria, Virginia, and received her BFA from the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
| 1:23.6 | She works full-time as an exhibiting artist going on 21 years. |
| 1:28.5 | After living in cities growing her career, she now resides in Port Royal, South Carolina. |
| 1:34.2 | She's working on her second coffee table book, Memoir, and preparing for several upcoming shows. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, as I explained in the introduction, Jennifer, this episode of our show is all about helping listeners get an up close and personal look in one of the highest rated occupations or professions in the country. |
| 1:51.5 | And certainly being an artist falls in that category. |
| 1:54.2 | How many people grow up wanting to be an artist? |
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