The world rewards certainty. We love certainty. We love it that the bus shows up on time, the plane takes off and lands just when it's supposed to. That's how we're used to that and we all want that. you start thinking about what you might make in that maybe there's something for you to create and it is not certain it's not clear and that's a prerequisite you know that not knowingness is essential. Good morning and welcome back to art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me

Alice Sheridan. Me Louise Fletcher. And we've got a guest with us today. Say hi and

introduce yourself.

I love the generous humor idea.

I'm glad I'm here for that.

I hope I'm that.

This is Nicholas Wilton, founder of art to life and artists just excited to share with you guys all that's happening.

Okay, so we're going to find out a little bit more about you and what you're working on in a moment.

But first of all, we usually kick off with what we've been working on this week. And this could be in the studio or not in the studio, but I would love to know what in the studio is concerning you at the moment in your paintings? I would say I was

painting in a very loose aggressive way and I'm backing off of that a little bit and I'm wondering if, you know, it's like I'm going backwards a little to what I was doing before and I don't want to go backwards but I don't know if this

step backwards to some of the things I was doing before having gained the information and

the knowledge of the wildness of which I was painting.

I'm just a little like am I chickening out here? I mean I don't think I am but I it's it's kind you know, like sometimes it's not just always a straight line and this feels like I'm going down a cul-de-sac a little bit, but I just need to for some reason. So I'm not sure if somebody's going to open up here, but it's I'm going backwards a little. I'm slowing down, I'm becoming a little bit more thoughtful. And that was that's quite a bit different than the way my last show and the last body of work that I was making.

Because that was quite a change wasn't it that the last I mean I remember seeing on

Instagram and all of a sudden these kind of much wilder approach sort of arrived

there was a lot more disruption to them and I've seen you work like that you know for a

while now but that was taking it to another level so you were just kind of looping

back a little bit you feel yeah I Yeah I mean I'm just you know it's it's like our art is is an expression of ourselves and there's

parts of like I think what it is is there's just I'm connecting to different parts of myself that wildness that you know I call the fire is a very powerful force and those paintings and working in that way and learning how to occupy that place is something that I'm exploring in myself, you know,

it was necessary for me, for me, and it's kind of a new area for it's,

for me, that's just something that I'm exploring in myself, you know, and and but there's also a there's a groundedness and an evenness and a more, you know, earth-based, water-based, calmness, energy that I'm also wanting to hold and I want to bring that into this work.

So you know it's like a child having a temper tantrum is kind of amazing and powerful, but also to hold the restraint.

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