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Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Art Breakthroughs (and what comes after) [82]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Arts, Visual Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What does it feel like to have a breakthrough in your art? How do you know it’s actually a breakthrough and not just a fluke success? And how do you keep the momentum going once the initial serotonin rush has subsided and you realise there is a lot of work still to do? Last week Alice predicted that a breakthrough was on the way for Louise, and that turned out to be very prescient. In this episode she shares what happened, what she plans to do next and why power tools will play an important role. We also answer a listener question about whether it’s acceptable for a workshop leader to physically change a student’s work, sparking an interesting discussion about teaching styles and student boundaries.


Books Mentioned: 

No Night is Too Long - Barbara Vine https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Too-Long-Barbara-Vine/dp/0517799642
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=moon+tiger&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
The Pilot’s Wife - Anita Shreve https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pilots-Wife-Anita-Shreve/dp/0349110859
How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Paint-Dead-Sarah-Hall/dp/0571315631/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And I picture that there'll be failure, failure, failure, little success.

0:05.7

Oh, follow that a bit.

0:07.1

Failure, failure, little success.

0:08.8

Follow that. Hi and Welcome to episode 82 of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher.

0:30.0

And me Alice Sheridan. And we are, Alice is broadcasting from somewhere a little bit different today

0:36.7

because she's on her holidays and yet still showed up to do this so thank you very

0:42.3

much for doing that. We have a juicy main topic

0:47.0

because after last week's episode and I got all kinds of messages from people worrying about

0:52.2

me and offering suggestions and telling me to have a holiday and it's actually Alice who's having a holiday.

0:57.0

Yeah, we'll talk about holiday, holiday in inverted comments.

1:02.0

Yeah, well we'll get to that.

1:04.4

But before, so our main topic follows on from last week and we're going to talk about

1:10.6

breakthroughs, what do they mean and what happens after them. But before we do that, let's do

1:16.0

our usual what you've been up to this week. So I gather it's been quite a busy holiday a week for you.

1:26.4

Yeah, it has.'re we're in Dartmouth I must admit it's funny I'm looking at some people on Instagram who've made the brave escape and

1:30.6

gone somewhere either hot and sunny which my daughter is highly

1:34.6

envious of and she's like we could just go people are going people are going and I'm

1:38.2

like yeah no but what made me really envious was a friend of hers has taken got the the tunnel which she said the train was pretty empty to Amsterdam and went to the Van Gogh Museum and said they were the only person in there.

1:54.0

I know. So I was kind of like, oh that kind of thing would be good, wouldn't it?

1:58.0

You normally can't even move.

2:01.0

I know. So a little bit envious of that rather than the hot weather. The hot

2:04.9

weather I just keep reminding myself, no it's just hot and you get through loads of

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