I did a Google search for I couldn't find unlikable artists or artists who were difficult so I just did a Google search for artists who were dicks and that brought up loads. Hi and

welcome to episode 97 of art juice.

This is honest, generous and humorous

conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher

and me Alice Sheridan. And today we've got a juicy topic which was introduced by two different listener questions.

We're going to talk about how important it is to like an artist in order to like their work, but also what that means for us in terms of

projecting a persona or how we present ourselves to the world. So we think this will be a good one,

but first of all, what have you been up to this week Alice?

I've been busy lady this week.

I know I've seen you whizzing around. I have a

a bit busy around what's interesting is so basically I have all of a sudden a bit of a gallery

deadline and what's interesting about that is how it has made me recognize how we work best.

I was perfectly happy, la la, I have no rush, I have no pressure, I can develop this work slowly in my own time, there was not a thing, I wasn't trying to get work ready for Christmas or anything like that but it's also being quite fun having a deadline

that is imposed by somebody else in this case,

usually when I have a deadline itself imposed,

but in this case, A, the fact that somebody else is interested

is quite nice, I'm sorry, but it is,

but it's really kind of made me focus in like what do these paintings need to get them over the finish line so lady came and she said can I

take that one and can I say no you can't I said it's close but I'm not ready to let it go

Not happy and a need to work on them and in my head I have to have them all working together so I've been doing that like a

slightly crazy thing you have to back up a little bit and you have to tell us which

lady and what gallery and what's going on well it's a London gallery and she has her own clientele,

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