Making Big Leaps - in art and life [4]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week finds us at different ends of the process. Louise has just finished several paintings in her latest series while Alice is preparing to begin new work.
As she prepares to start, we talk about the importance of making a leap into the unknown - in art and in life. The impressionist Edgar Degas is quoted as saying “only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” This week the conversation centres on the extent to which this is true. How important is it to push your work into new territory? Is risk-taking an essential element of being an artist? And if art mirrors life, do we need to find ways to bring risk into our daily lives?
We also answer a question from a listener, who asked "how long does it take to become an artist?" We discuss what it means to be an artist, and whether becoming one is a matter of fact or a matter of mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | And I just wonder if this desire to be always doing something new and finding something more within |
| 0:06.0 | our self-obsessed egos that's a way of looking at |
| 0:15.0 | looking at art. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome back to Art Juice the podcast for artists, aspiring creatives and |
| 0:29.4 | art lovers. I'm Alice Sheridan and I'm Louise Fletcher and this is episode four and we are |
| 0:37.3 | going to be talking about making that big leap into the unknown. But first of all our regular catch-up, what have you been |
| 0:47.5 | working on this week? So I'm going to come to you first Louise. Okay so I've actually finished some paintings this week and this series of paintings have been I've been working on for about 10 weeks and so they were none of them getting resolved and it was dragging on a |
| 1:06.5 | little bit so I was really happy that two of them came into fruition this week and |
| 1:11.4 | one has really moved on and so that's good because I now have enough |
| 1:16.5 | paintings for the show I have coming up in a few weeks and I can relax and clear my studio and just start playing and having some fun. |
| 1:25.6 | So that was me this week. |
| 1:27.6 | I find it fascinating how often when you're working on a group of work, Sometimes the resolution happens really quickly and sometimes |
| 1:36.7 | that end stage seems very slow and it goes on for a long time. Do you find the same that you |
| 1:42.4 | get differences between one |
| 1:44.3 | painting and the other in a group? Yes and also I found that with one of these I |
| 1:50.3 | really thought I was just at the point of saying |
| 1:53.2 | oh this is when I've worked on the longest it wasn't going anywhere and I |
| 1:57.4 | literally did like three things and suddenly oh it's almost done Like it was just so quick from taking so long. And yeah, from the same |
| 2:08.4 | series I've got a couple piled in the corner where they just went, they went off track. I haven't gone back to them to get them back on track so they're going to take even longer. |
| 2:17.0 | I got slowed down in this series because I was recording myself painting for a course I was teaching that turned out to be really difficult to do and I think I would try and do that differently next time. |
| 2:29.0 | People often ask me about that, can you do more videos of you painting and I say it would be so |
| 2:33.8 | boring because there's an awful lot of standing thinking time. Yeah. You don't get that |
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