staying in your safety zone then, staying in your comfort zone, holding onto a style or a particular type of work that you know will sell well.

It doesn't actually serve you to stay in that place if you want to move onwards and grow.

Welcome to another episode of art juice.

This is episode 222. That sounds a nice round number

doesn't it? This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your

creative soul and get you thinking.

I'm Alice Sheridan.

And I'm Louise Fletcher.

Now, this is going to be a slightly funny episode

because I have totally been giving myself the summer off and message Louise and said I don't have anything

Artie particular to talk about I have been swimming and enjoying time with family

and making plum jam and I'm very happy.

And I wrote back,

Oh, very happy sounds nice.

When do you get to that stage of life?

But it's interesting because I'm not going to lie it has thrown up some questions for me along the lines of

Who am I if I'm not making art? And yeah, I know whenever I share this, everybody or lots of people say,

oh my gosh, thank you for letting us know that you're not making art all the time. So we're going to be talking just a little bit

about that and I think too about the different stages perhaps of an art making career and I use the word career very loosely I mean that kind of general

path that we all kind of have to go through with everything in life and I think very often that we hit new

stages where it demands new things from us or we have to respond in a different way and it just takes

a little bit of time to adjust to that and to figure out what's next for you on the path and to know that if things are changing that's not because you're doing anything wrong it's usually just because things have kind of reshuffled like

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