that's the place I want to be because I know where that I know that that is what leads to the surprises and and to me it's what it's what leads to work that speaks to me. I'm Hi and welcome to episode 175 of our juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking.

With me, Louise Fletcher, and today Alice is taking a break and I have a special guest. American artist Jane Davis has agreed to step into Alice's shoes and join me for this week's Artie Chat. Before I welcome her I just want to tell you a little bit about her for those very few people who haven't come across or online.

Jane is a full-time artist working in painting and collars. she teaches in person and online. She helps people develop their own visual language and their technical skills. She began her art career as a potter before transitioning into freelance art, painting and collage primarily.

She has written five books including the fabulous elements of visual language book that I have and she also has made a DVD

on painting and collage techniques. Her work is sold through a gallery. She lives in Vermont in the

USA and her work is sold through the

Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont and via her website which is

Jane Davis studios.com and there will be links in the show notes to all of Jane's places that you can find her.

But welcome Jane, it's lovely to have you. Oh, thank you. I'm delighted and those are big shoes to fill. Yeah. Well, it's not literally. She hasn't got particularly big feet, I don't think, but... Oh, okay. Well, she looms large in my in my art imagination so well initially when I thought of

approaching you I was thinking of the traditional interview but I just think there's a lot of artist interview podcasts additional interview

podcasts out there and I like the format of our podcast where we're just chatting and

just chatting and discussing an idea and I found you because of your interest in today's main topic which is our main topic is

exploration and where it fits into our art and so I thought you'd be the

perfect guest to bring on and have a chat about that. But before we get into that main

topic what's going on with you at the moment in your art world, Jane?

I've kind of in the last few months developed or discovered or

up- up discovered or explored my way into a process whereby I'm kind of reusing and recycling

or up-cycling older work.

I'm taking old paintings on are on panel and sanding them down, like sanding

them to get some really interesting texture and then using that as a base for new pieces.

And then works on paper, I'm sanding them and then cutting them up into bits and

soaking the pieces in water and peeling the paper off so I get these kind of skins of acrylic paint and collage.

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