This would be different than that. This is a art juice. I can't quite believe we've got to episode 12 already.

This is me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher and these are just

behind the scenes conversations about making art and the creative life. So we're

going to go straight in to what are you working on or what have you been working on this week?

So I've had an interesting week because a few months ago I was accepted into our open studios for North Yorkshire and being an idiot and filled with enthusiasm I said does anybody you know would you like any help with social media and marketing because I can do

Facebook advertising? Because I knew even though I'm not the world's biggest expert, I can do more

than most people there. And they said, oh yes, that would be great and then a memo went out to everyone

that I was in charge of social media strategy for open studio. You see your

fresh blood your fresh blood in the group.

I should know by now, don't put your hand up in a voluntary group.

And the thing about this open studios is,

North Yorkshire is England's biggest county for people who are not from England and it covers a large area and it used to be the

open studios was a very professionally run operation by an organization with

government funding and all the rest and it was very glossy and well produced and

the organization backed out last glossy and well produced last the year before last and decided not to do it anymore

so it has become an artist led event.

Yeah and right. And what was really interesting was we had a meeting this week. We've got lovely, the guy who's done it, he's a portrait artist from the East Coast.

He's done an amazing job and the brochures are glossy

and the posters look great and everything looks as professionals before.

And at the meeting we gave him, said oh round of applause for Russell and he

accepted the round of applause and then said I'd just like to say that if anybody

assumes I can ever do this again I can't because it's taken six months of solid full-time work and I haven't painted in six months and I can't do that anymore, which is of course totally reasonable reasonable and then this kind of Paul went over the room that was like oh what we're going to do now because with something like this you do it once that's not the end of the work you've got to do it

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