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Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Go Big! Should you scale up to larger work? [88]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Arts, Visual Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Is there a perception in the art world that big is better?  Do you gain more respect if you make larger paintings? This week we debate wether size matters and share our own personal experiences of scaling up our work. We discuss the challenges of working larger, including the need to think differently, choose the right substrate and tools, and - most of all - buy enough paint. We also challenge the notion that big is better and discuss the importance of finding your own desired way of working. We feel that so much of this depends on what your work is about and what feels right to you. The right work will always find an audience, no matter the size. And if it doesn't, does that really matter if you are painting what you love?

This week's chat also covers internet scams, inspirational emails, school reports that miss the mark, and Alice's first in-person art event in 2020.

Mentioned

Ethan Hawke TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q

Polly Dutton https://www.pollydutton.co.uk/

Rachel Davies https://www.racheldavisstudio.com/abstractportraits

You can see 'Canopy' on this page: https://alicesheridan.com/landscape-unlocked/

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Credits

"Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Transcript

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0:00.0

If that idea excites you, I mean if you see that and it excites you, then it's something to be

0:07.0

to be working towards, but I don't think you have to have it at all. At all. Hi and welcome to episode 88 of Art Juice.

0:18.0

This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

0:30.0

And this week our topic was suggested by a listener, it's the idea of going bigger, do we need to scale up our work, and what

0:45.0

we'll do all our usual features talk about what happened in our week and what inspired us.

0:49.0

But before we get to that, I just wanted to thank Anna for a lovely new review that she left for us.

0:56.8

She says love this podcast honest conversations about the journey of being an artist.

1:02.1

Unlike some podcasts the hosts don't try to sell some online gimmick

1:06.0

or unattainable expectation of selling a million dollars worth of paintings in 14 days.

1:12.0

It's real.

1:13.2

Though that would be nice, wouldn't it?

1:15.2

It would be nice.

1:16.2

Is that what we're working towards? I don't know. I don't even think it is.

1:20.5

Is it? I was going to say, I just don't like to to both so I keep that stuff to myself.

1:25.0

Oh you really have sold a million dollars worth of paintings you're just not telling us

1:30.3

about it.

1:31.3

Of course yeah, the time.

1:34.0

So anyway, tell us about your week, Alice.

1:37.0

Well, you know how it's been a little bit, oh, the week's been the same,

1:41.0

it's come round and I've got nothing to talk about.

1:42.8

This week I feel like we could have had an entire episode almost about every single one of these.

1:49.2

We haven't got time today, but basically we had the first weekend of the Artwave Cow Shedd exhibition, so that was our first in-person,

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