Hello and welcome to episode 134 of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your

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

And this week we're going to be talking about the idea of spending time with your

work. What is wasted time for you and does it all have to be productive and that came about from what I've

been doing this week but before we get to that how's your week been what have you been working on busy as always but

two exciting things that I've been working on the first is I had to go back and

look at my notes as well what have I been doing the first is I have to go back and look at my notes as well. What have I been doing? The first is I have had some new panels made, but they are completely different size and shape. So if you can see Alice, the painting on the wall behind me,

that's a long thin painting on paper and I wanted, it's a painting I made just after my friend died who I talked about last week and I wanted to put it onto a panel and I wanted to stick it onto a panel and have it in my house and I have a place for it and everything so I'm all set with that so I asked

my handyman friend to make a panel the perfect size and he's made a brilliant long panel and I was

sealing and priming it last night and I thought God God, I wish I wasn't going to stick that painting on it because this is a really tempting size and shape. I really want to paint on it.

And this morning he showed up with another one I must have manifested that because he showed up with

another one because he had the wood spare from the big sheet of plywood and he said I thought

you might want this one I've made another one and because he

owed me to favour so I now have this beautiful long thing it's seven just over seven

feet by two feet. Wow. So it's really long and thing. And I've just finished

jessowing and I'm like I can't wait to get putting some paint on that one. But the other thing I did today, I came in here to do some painting and found out we have a borehole for our water. And once a year the men come and service it and they were servicing it this morning which meant the water

went off with no warning and we didn't have water for three hours so I couldn't paint.

So I started tidying up in here. Big studio tidy up. It's only about half completed, but it feels so much better to just start clearing out.

I've cleared out some paintings that are going nowhere, some little panels that are just going nowhere,

and pieces on paper that need putting in the plan chest that's in the garage and junk that's everywhere,

and I just wonder, how am I so messy.

Some people seem, even though they make a mess when they work, they seem to have organized

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