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

How Do I Find My Style? [55]

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

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Arts, Visual Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode was inspired by a question from an artist who wrote: "I can draw well, and I paint in watercolour and acrylics but my style is all over the place. How can I find a style and settle on it?" We discuss whether you need to settle on a specific style, or whether it's OK to have multiple strings to your bow. Perhaps this varies depending on your goals for your art. We also share our own individual journeys,  and debate whether there are concrete steps you can take to find your own style. An artist's style, we agree, is the result of many different choices (subject matter, media, process, and decisions about colour and design and value among many other things). But it is also something that evolves - and that is perhaps never fully defined. After all, many of the "greats" changed styles multiple times as they explored different ideas or different ways of making their work. Most of, we both feel that your style is something that comes through doing rather than thinking - you must make work and in the process of making that work, you find your style.

This is also one with giggles over builders, a few tears and even disagreements over confectionery!

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Join the free Art2Life online workshop HERE: https://www.louisefletcherart.com/for-artists/art2life/

Lesley Birch: https://www.lesleybirchartist.com/

Alice Sheridan - Canopy: https://alicesheridan.com/landscape-unlocked/

Laura Horn Art podcast: https://www.laurahornart.com/thepodcast


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Transcript

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0:00.0

you only discover it almost as a byproduct of what you're doing.

0:07.0

I think that's the key. Hello everybody this is art juice this is honest generous and humorous

0:26.3

conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me

0:30.5

Alice Sheridan and me me, Louise Fletcher.

0:34.0

This is episode 55, and I was listening to an earlier episode,

0:40.0

back earlier in this week.

0:42.0

I quite liked our previous intro but it occurred to me

0:45.0

that we've probably got a lot of new listeners recently and they might not know

0:49.2

who Alice Sheridan or Louise Fletcher are.

0:51.2

Should we say a quick hello?

0:54.0

I thought everyone in the world knew who we were.

0:58.0

I mean, we say that each week because we assume that you've come here

1:01.0

from either one of our social media accounts or you know us already

1:04.8

but we know that so many of you are recommending us and referring us and you know it's

1:09.5

lovely to see the new listeners but you're probably kind of going who the heck are these two people

1:14.4

so would you like to start who are you Louise who am I oh that's a very deep question

1:20.2

isn't it how deep are are we going? Well, I'm Louise. I live in Yorkshire. I paint semi-abstract

1:28.3

landscapes. I've been painting for about five or six years seriously and full time for the last year and a half.

1:37.3

And I met you online and then we got to know each other and about a year ago we had this idea to do this together.

1:47.0

So I don't know I live with my husband, I don't have any children, I have a dog called Riley and a cat called Bob. Bob's a girl, not a boy, but that's a long story.

1:58.0

And that's me really.

2:00.0

We obviously have something about cross-sex change pets then because we have a dog called

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