Success Stories: A Winter Boost [96]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're returning to a listener question from episode 93, when Cherrie asked if we knew of any positive lockdown stories. As the UK enters a second national lockdown, we decided to talk with two artists about how they have made the most of this strange year. First, Alice talks to Faye Bridgewater, who has really stepped up her game in 2020, earning success after success as a result of her courage and hard work. Then, Louise chats to Gwynne Penny, who shares a heartwarming story of turning negative feelings into a beautiful and inspiring creative project. Both these conversations are a reminder that we cannot control what happens, but we can control how we react to it. We also discuss our progress on our work and send our best wishes to Tracey Emin as she recovers from major surgery following a cancer diagnosis.
Mentioned
Faye Bridgewater https://www.fayebridgwater.com/
Gwynne Penny https://www.gwynnepenny.com/
Gwynne's book https://www.gwynnepenny.com/memories-of-st-ives-in-print/
The Painter and the Thief trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohk9IQrmSc
Pamela Caughey video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6CsWdF-854
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There was a period of time I thought I never paint again. |
| 0:04.2 | And I have learned from this year that creativity is like a tide. |
| 0:10.0 | And now I know this, this is so much, it's a real gift to know this now. |
| 0:15.7 | Well, hello hello, and welcome back to Art Juice. This is episode 96 of Art Juice with |
| 0:30.9 | honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your |
| 0:34.0 | creative soul and hopefully get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and me |
| 0:38.7 | Louise Fletcher. How are you this week? I'm good. How are you this week? |
| 0:45.0 | I'm good. How are you? Pretty good. |
| 0:48.0 | I've been out for a nice misty beautiful dog walk before we do this and I've had really quite a cracking week. We have |
| 0:55.0 | got something slightly different as you will have heard from our intro that was |
| 0:59.3 | not me and that was not Louise we have two guest interviews with artists who we've mentioned |
| 1:04.8 | previously and we promise you that we would go a little bit deeper into both of |
| 1:08.4 | their stories about how this year has been, what they have discovered and some new projects that they have been involved in this year that they probably wouldn't have been able to plan at all at the beginning. |
| 1:20.0 | And it's lovely. We've listened back to both of them and I think they have very different |
| 1:25.2 | things to share so we hope that you're going to enjoy that but before we get into that |
| 1:29.7 | what have you personally been working on? |
| 1:32.0 | Well I've been a busy bee, but a lot of my weaker seems to have been taken up with a screwdriver and a pair of |
| 1:41.2 | snippers which I've been pulling staples out of canvases to get them off stretch of bars. |
| 1:46.0 | Such a big experiment, Alice is shaking ahead but it all worked out. |
| 1:51.0 | So the story is that I bought these massive canvases and then I just |
| 1:57.3 | cannot, cannot, cannot make anything decent on canvas. I can't. So eventually I thought well I have this big five foot by four foot one that I've been working and I thought I've got two choices here I can either give up and waste all this money or I can try taking this off the |
| 2:14.4 | stretcher bars and then paint on it and then try and get it back on the stretcher |
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