Hi and sold 159 of art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your

creative soul and get you thinking. With me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

And this week our topic is something we haven't actually touched on before I don't

think does art have to be beautiful perhaps we're talking about this because

we're both making out that isn't beautiful.

We'll see.

But before we get into that, what have you been up to this week, Alice?

Yeah, it's been one of those weeks that kind of gets taken over a little bit by other things.

My son's back, he had to have an emergency wisdom teeth operation, which is grim these days. I had it done with a general

anaesthetic if you had it done. No I never got wisdom teeth I have no wisdom apparently.

Well in my day they decided it was so brutal they had to put you under now they don't bother with that.

They just give you local anesthetics and dig them all out right in front of you.

So that was fun to sit and watch poor kid so yeah so

we've been he's been recovering from that and I've just been having a little bit

of a sort of review I'm doing another series of these little small ones and I mentioned before that it feels that's a real change from the big ones that I've just finished and so I just thought actually rather than just keep

going blindly pick a few out which ones are speaking to me more at the moment and how is that

sort of linking back to what I might want to do next or what's going on in the big paintings.

And also in the other studio I've just started a whole round, how many I've got going, I don't know,

16 or something, of middle-sized ones with a little just a kind of open, an open exploratory attitude but I do also want them to link back to the big pieces that I've finished.

So there's a bit of a push and pull there going on and I've also booked a photographer to get work photographed and I'm thinking of next round of prints and how I might do that differently this time.

So I'm in that stage where kind of like ideas of fizzing and

nothing's quite settled yet.

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