Finding the Creative Spark [75]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week we're discussing creativity and specifically how to spark new ideas or creative energy. For Louise, the impetus seems to come when she is most busy, so that she has less time to think and dabble and is forced to take action quickly. For Alice, space and time and quiet are very important ... without that, she doesn't feel there's room for new ideas. But we both agree that outside input or external stimuli are vital, whether that is a conversation with another artist, an exhibition, a book, or just a trip on the tube. And we both feel that the best ideas often come from unexpected sources. - something just ignites that spark. We also discuss how we choose which ideas to bring to fruition and which to leave on what Alice calls "the idea shelf." As always, we have some points of similarity and some differences, so hopefully this conversation will help you think through your own creative process - maybe there are things you could do to create the ideal conditions for maximum creativity?
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| 0:00.0 | What kind of situation do you find or do you find that you can create a situation where these |
| 0:06.5 | sparks happen more often and what then propels them into action so they're actually going to be reality. Hi and welcome to episode 75 of Art Juice, honest, generous and humorous |
| 0:28.2 | conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with |
| 0:31.9 | me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:35.0 | And we've had a bit of a bumpy start to this podcast with microphone problems and internet problems and so hopefully the rest of it will go more smoothly. We have an interesting |
| 0:46.4 | topic for you today. We thought that it would be nice to talk about something a |
| 0:50.6 | little bit upbeat saying so much of what's going on around us is not upbeat. |
| 0:56.6 | And so we're going to talk about a subject that Alice suggested, which is finding the |
| 1:02.1 | creative spark. But first of all, before we get to that, what have you been working on this week, Alice? |
| 1:08.0 | I've been back to the studio, which is where the idea came from, because always does doesn't it ha ha ha. |
| 1:14.0 | So anyway it felt it felt really good and it was funny as I was leaving the house and going there |
| 1:21.0 | I said to my husband it feels like I'm escaping. So it was very nice. I'm not |
| 1:28.8 | sure what painting I actually did that day had any improvement on what was there before but I don't really care. |
| 1:37.0 | That doesn't matter, does it? |
| 1:38.0 | Sometimes it's just going. |
| 1:40.0 | No, so I'm all excited now about ordering, ordering big new canvases and of course they're all, they're just out of stock everywhere, damn it. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, so I'm trying to, even with you know one says you're due in 20th of July or something I can't wait that long |
| 1:59.3 | So I'm trying to weigh up whether I get some really expensive ones made or whether I order all the |
| 2:07.1 | stretcher bars and make them myself. I got really excited because the canvas is quite cheap but the stretcher bars are really expensive. |
| 2:15.6 | I saw somebody on Instagram doing a painting on canvas on the floor just flat cam, you know, no stretch bars and it looks so much fun and I thought, oh, maybe I should just buy a big roll of canvas do that and then worry about the stretch bars afterwards. |
| 2:31.0 | Well, I wanted that apart from I really like my edges. I really like |
| 2:37.1 | feeling where the edge of the painting is and pushing off towards that but yeah that that would be an |
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