Actually, you don't have to learn to deal with that shape composition.

Why do you have to learn to like that shape as a base shape?

You don't. Hi and welcome to episode 149 of Art Jesus is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and to get you thinking.

With me, Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

And this week we have a bit of a vague and amorphous topic, but we're going to see where it takes us.

We're going to talk about limitations.

But before we get into that, I just want to know what you've been up to this week Alice.

It feels like a very short week so we're recording this unusually on a Saturday

because Thursday and Friday I have been away for two days on a business mastermind get together,

which is always really interesting partly because nobody else in that group is artists so it kind of takes me out of

artist world and I just find that I'm simulated in quite an interesting way by people who are, I suppose it's the problem solving element of things.

I think actually as artist, perhaps one of our skills is to see what's going on around us and cherry pick just kind of pick out what's of interest to us whether that's in the landscape or know, what we're enjoying and what we're seeing or, you know, ideas or things that you can apply to your business. So I always find it really interesting, even despite the fact that, you know, perhaps a large percentage of what's discussed

is not always directly applicable I just quite like my brain being challenged in that way

and it's just always nice to get away. Yeah, so that's what I've been doing.

What about you?

I have been doing a lot of painting, but in short bursts,

so I might only have an hour in the day but in that day I've been making a lot of progress and I made a painting in two days and it's a big one I made a painting in two days, me who takes months actually did it. That was good. So the

paintings been going really well. I set myself a target to finish 10 paintings of various sizes in January.

I've done nine and we're halfway through.

So I just need one more and I'll be on track.

And then I want to finish about 10 in February and then that should be, I should be done for the exhibition which would be well ahead of where I wanted to be and kind of I'm rushing a bit because I've got another idea I want to work on which I've got to get this I've got to compartmentalize get this done. So I was doing that but also I've been filming a masterclass for my art tribe and also something that I think I'm going to put out for free as a just on my website for anybody who wants it and it's quite funny. I might have told this story before, but there's a book I read by Stuart

Maconey, who's a writer, music critic, DJ, he wrote a book and he was talking about

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