Are you a Frog in Hot Water - or When is it Time to Delegate? [20]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel like a boiling frog? So busy that you don't notice that "enjoyably in demand" has turned into "totally overwhelmed and frazzled?" As artists, it's often a challenge to ask for help - partly because some of our work HAS to be done by us, and partly because we can't accept that anyone could do things as well as we do!
If you feel like you don't have enough time to get everything done, you're not alone. We ask if systems and tools can help you plan your time, how being honest with your choices makes all the difference, and when it is really time to delegate tasks. (And if it IS time, how on earth do you decide which ones and who to trust?!) We also discuss overwhelm in the context of preparing for exhibitions - we have some ideas of how to display unfinished work and wonder if perhaps someone will fall in love with the raw unfinished state of a work in progress. (and then what do you do?)
So many questions! And even if we don't have all the answers, we're happy to share how we each manage hectic schedules and packed 'to do' lists.
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Louise showing at North Yorkshire Open Studios final weekend 8th & 9th June
Louise is enjoying using some lustrous paint from Art2Life Alice has been to the Central St Martins degree show with mixed feelings, but struck by large scale paintings by Troy Rosewell
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| 0:00.0 | honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking. So, welcome to art juice. |
| 0:08.0 | Did I say that? |
| 0:10.0 | And when I logged in to do the show notes, I thought, oh, she's updated it, that's rather nice. Because I think the thing is when we started this to be honest we didn't really know what we're going to be talking about did we? |
| 0:30.0 | And it kind of that's the feedback that we're getting. This is really nice that it's, you know, |
| 0:35.7 | honest open and you're just saying what you think. So here we are. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome to episode 20 of Art Juice with me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:48.7 | We came to this morning, we're not entirely sure what we're going to be talking about today. It's been busy weeks for both of us in |
| 0:54.8 | various regards and some questions have come up that we see in you or that we have questions of. |
| 1:00.9 | So perhaps we're just going to talk about the subject of feeling overwhelmed |
| 1:05.3 | and getting things done and maybe choosing what's important. But first of all, why don't you tell |
| 1:11.2 | us what you've been busy on this week? |
| 1:14.0 | Well it perfectly ties into feeling overwhelmed because I've just been |
| 1:18.9 | preparing for open studios and even though I said oh oh I'm just going to take it easy and it is whatever it is, |
| 1:26.8 | then my perfectionist streak kicked in this week and I wanted to finish paintings and I wanted to get and I was, I want them all hanging really nicely around my home and I just |
| 1:36.8 | I've got all these ideas of what I want to do and of course they've all created extra |
| 1:41.1 | work for me. So I did do some delegation. Someone said to me, |
| 1:48.0 | oh you're like Wonder Woman, you even decorated your studio while you were doing all this and I said no I got someone else to |
| 1:54.4 | decorate the studio and I'm getting somebody else to help me with framing and hanging around |
| 2:00.8 | the house this afternoon because there's only so much you can manage. |
| 2:05.4 | And the other thing I've done to try and manage a little bit how I'm feeling is just to accept |
| 2:12.3 | that whatever is going to be is going to be. So perfect example. I suddenly thought, |
| 2:17.8 | okay I've got the hanging plan for the whole house and everything fits in and everything's going to look beautiful, oh, what if someone buys one? |
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