Navigating Change in Your Art [141]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week's discussion was originally planned as a chat about persevering with unfamiliar materials, but it soon broadened into a conversation about change in our work. We discuss the importance of finding ways to shift our work, and the role materials can play in that. We both strive to constantly push our work in new directions, but this can lead to real feelings of discomfort if we are also seeking results in the form of finished paintings. In the end, we both agree that new ideas need time and space in which to grow. If we give up at the first hurdle, we never get to find out what might have been possible. So Alice has decided to persevere and make life difficult sometimes with new materials while Louise will continue to make paintings she doesn't yet understand.
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Khadi paper https://www.jacksonsart.com/brands/khadi
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe that's it for me is that when you have those experiences of coming up against something that's not working for you, |
| 0:07.0 | if you just keep going a little bit, it's that thing of like, like when you're trying to take small children on the walk and they're like I'm finished can we go home can we go and you're like just keep going a little bit further just keep going a little bit further and then they get to the top of the hill and they go jumping around like you know king of the hill and they go jumping around like, you know, King of the hill. |
| 0:23.2 | Hi and welcome to episode 141 of Art Juice. |
| 0:32.8 | This is honest, generous and humorous conversations |
| 0:35.5 | to feed your creative soul and get you thinking |
| 0:38.1 | with me, Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:39.9 | And me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:41.2 | So our main topic this week is about materials. |
| 0:44.0 | We're going to talk about how we choose our materials, what we do when maybe they're not working |
| 0:48.2 | for us. |
| 0:49.2 | We're just going to see where that conversation goes. |
| 0:51.7 | But before we get into that, we'll do our usual wrap up of what we've been |
| 0:54.8 | working on this week. So what have you been up to, Alice? Well, I've been away for a couple of days, |
| 1:01.3 | a mini little four day away from home break over half term. |
| 1:06.7 | And the last part of that was we were just wrapping up time to shine. |
| 1:12.1 | It was such good fun and it just made me realize I just love it when I'm doing |
| 1:18.8 | things kind of live with other people. It just works so well and I think that's where the best of me comes out in terms of supporting other people and it was just amazing. So you guys who were on it, you did a fantastic job and it's |
| 1:37.5 | made me think about what I might want to do differently next year. So that has been quite good fun. Then I have also been working on some |
| 1:46.7 | those tiny little pieces again which have been a little bit frustrating and some new big work in the studio which has been really good fun. |
| 1:56.2 | I'm just I'm just kind of conscious at the moment that I'm looking I've been looking for a |
| 2:02.3 | while for something new and a bit different so I just keep |
| 2:04.9 | pushing myself to try things out and actually it was a day when I was very frustrated that |
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