It's how do you get to that place where you're secure enough to say to yourself?

No, I'm not. You might think that, but you don't know what you're talking about. Hi and welcome to episode 125 of art use. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your

creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alan Sheridan.

And this week we have a topic that was prompted by a listener review. So thank you for that, giving us a great idea for a topic. But before we get to our main topic, which I'm going to keep you on Tenter hooks about. What are you working on this week Alice?

Well I had a little bit of a break we got out of London for a few days and it was lovely it just always invigorates me having a change of location

having a change it's that thing isn't't it, about what you get inspiration from? And yeah, we can get inspiration

from inside ourselves and blah blah blah. But actually I get a lot of mine from that external stimulation.

And I've spoken about this before in the

podcast I think that's what's been quite hard for me about the last year and a half

it's like the same old same old place same old journey you know everything. So I kind of came back thinking, how am I going to get more of this in to my life, even within my everyday? So I've got some nice ideas about getting a little bit inspired from the everyday and just making a little bit more of that happen. So heading out tomorrow with a friend which is going to be a nice little day trip out

I don't know what we'll discover but just that feeling was really good but it was interesting

I came back I've come back home and I've because of this

home studio and away studio and I've got a very different scale of things I'm working on. I'm working on small

pieces at home and big things away, whereas previously that would all have happened within the same space.

And it's just interesting how I noticed I'm working on those two things very differently.

The small things seem to be more about control and tension and the bigger things seem to be

about freer and I wasn't I don't know whether it's a process practical thing or whether I they just need to have a different feel on scale so right I know it hasn't settled yet but that's what I've been thinking about. It's just good noticing isn't it? It's good

noticing these things and then you can let it filter through and see if it needs to be that way or is there

something that can shift on one or the other? I mean like I don't know if I enjoy things in small work about that control element. Do I need to take those into big pieces or can they just have a totally different feel to them?

Do I just not want to work in that sort of controlled way on big pieces.

Maybe they're just totally, just a totally different approach.

But I always think it's interesting how these different parts of your work

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