You're listening to the savvy painter podcast, episode number 22.

Welcome to the savvy painter podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter

podcast. Philadelphia artist Stuart Shills is my guest today.

You may remember if you heard episode 20, my interview with William Ray that William mentioned

how much of an influence Stuart was on his work?

Well, I reached out to Stuart and he graciously agreed to speak with me about his art.

Stuart and I talk about the role of influence in creating your art.

We discuss the evolution of the artist and how we begin with

the voices of mentors and teachers chattering away in our heads and how to develop our own voice.

Stewart shares a great story about a chance encounter with

Julia Auerbach, the wife of Frank Auerbach, and how that pushed his resolve.

There are several pieces of this conversation that I'm still molling over and I probably will be for a while.

Stuart talks about the visual kiss, which is what we make of our contact with our subject.

It's our subjective interpretation. which is what we make of our contact with our subject.

It's our subjective interpretation.

How what we create reflects how present we are in that moment.

And what happens in the interval between looking at our subject and making a mark on the canvas. Is that

interval a second, a week, a month? While we talk about the barrage of

information and distraction artists today deal other side of to deal with.

Stuart sits in a cafe in Philadelphia,

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