I always loved color but because of it I knew I needed to understand color better.

So we have got something special for you this week.

Coming up I have a conversation with Kelly Wynne Conrad and we are talking all about collaboration failures the roller coaster of being an artist and most of all the gift of colour.

Hello and welcome to Art Juice, this is honest, generous and humorous

conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking

with me Alice Sheridan and today I have got a guest with me.

Hello Kelly Wynne Conrad.

Hello Alice I'm so excited to be here.

Do you remember when we first met online?

Well, I know it was before either of you,

you or I had our own art business.

I mean, we were painters and selling our art but we were teaching online yet.

So this is a while. It has been a while so this is one of those relationships that you can't quite figure out

where it began and people grow with you and this is I just thought that this was a perfect opportunity to introduce Kelly to those of you who don't know her and I know a lot of you do because you've been part of her courses we've been part of her membership but I think the reason that I first was drawn to you was your kind of obsessive love of color which I think many of us share so we're going to talk about that a little bit later but first of all tell me how has your week been what have you been working on? Well I am

currently trying to overhaul my art studio because it's a disaster and I really can't get in and make any art right now.

You know how it is as a creative, one project after another and you're just rushing through it until suddenly it's like something exploded and so I'm trying to work through a massive overhaul and my big goal is to get rid of at least 25% of what's in my studio. So do you have a time scale when you do that?

Do you tend to do that once a year or just when it needs it?

Yeah, about, I think I would say about once a year that I do it.

It needs an overhaul. I like clean regularly because I need to start fresh every time I start a new project.

So I'm really excited to get back into painting right now. I'm kind of interested in doing some landscapes for a little while and I'm working on seascapes for the re-release of another course. This is the year of finishing so my whole goal has been finishing all my courses, all my projects, and just kind of tying up all those loose ends and making everything flow nicely, which is not easy to do when you have a creative brain and your brain kind of always wants to take detours, but this is the year my goal is finishing. So finishing cleaning my studio, finishing working on some of the art projects that have just kind of been piling up and seeing where that takes me next before I start anything new.

A little bit of real life trash clearing doesn't do anybody any harm does it?

No kidding it just feels like such a weight is lifted and I don't even mind throwing out

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