How to Know What You Want in Your Art (and Your Life) [182]

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

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're prompting you to pause and think about what you want. So many online courses promise success through tag lines like "Sell more art" or "Build a Six-Figure Art Business," and it's natural to assume that should be the goal for everyone. Of course there is nothing wrong with wanting to earn a good living from our work, but it isn't the only way to go. It's too easy to get sucked into pursuing things that others value without truly understanding if they are important to us. Perhaps you don't want to sell your art... or maybe you want to supplement your income in some other way. Maybe you want a gallery ... or perhaps you just want to sell online.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of admitting our desires to ourselves. If we don't acknowledge and accept them, no-one else will! Alice then shares 5 key questions that can help you get to the root of your own desires and preferences.

Mentioned

Self Care Club podcast: How to Have a Difficult Conversation
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-have-a-difficult-conversation/id1505703522?i=1000578355383

Gary Vee on choosing what you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB_6brOEEgM

Ken Spooner https://www.cornwallcontemporary.com/exhibition/ken-spooner-exhibition/

Joan Eardley Painting at Tate St Ives https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/eardley-salmon-net-posts-t04133

Find Alice and Louise at:

www.alicesheridan.com

www.louisefletcherart.com

@alicesheridanstudio

@louisefletcher_art

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	Why are you doing this? What do you want from your art practice? How do you want your life to be looking?
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will
0:15.2	feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan.
0:19.5	Me Louise Fletcher and we might be joined by my dog Riley on occasion as he seems to be barking this morning.
0:27.2	And we're having a little bit of a catch-up this week. Louise you are still away on your retreat. I am working not
0:36.0	panicking honest not panicking for paintings for Manchester Art Fair and
0:42.0	you look quite relaxed. I know it's weird. Well I'm going to tell you
0:47.6	about maybe why I'm a bit relaxed in a minute but we've got a really interesting I think conversation that I really
0:55.8	wanted us to talk about about asking for what we want and part of this is because I've listened to the show that you
1:05.8	did for next week which is a really interesting one and also it's just popped up
1:10.4	you know how things pop up in various phases during the week and I've just thought,
1:14.0	oh, oh, this is the topic for discussion today. But before we get to that, how is the retreat going?
1:22.3	Tell us a little bit more, how long have you been there now? the last week I've got friends coming down so it's going to be very different for the last week.
1:35.5	Being interesting in the sense that lots of inspiration coming in and I don't know what any of it. of
1:45.0	what any of it will lead to or mean.
1:46.0	And I'll talk about some of that at the end about what's inspired.
1:50.0	It's interesting that thing about familiarity and being in a different place.
1:55.0	I mean I feel like this when I go on holiday, it's like it's lovely when I want to make
1:59.3	heart about it.
2:00.3	Yeah, yeah.
2:02.3	It feels a bit like when I was a kid or when I was younger and I had a job I didn't like and I lived in him a not so nice place.
2:12.0	Going on holiday was a massive treat because oh this place is stunning. I wish I could live here, you know, and I don't have to do my horrible job for two weeks. I get to do something else. But now that I have a lovely job that gives me great joy, I've gone on holiday from the thing that gives me great joy and I haven't left a horrible place,
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