Even in a workshop of 10 people, there will not be two that look like they've been on the same workshop.

Yeah.

They look like they've had different instructions because their own stuff comes out.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative

soul and get you thinking. Just what we all need. With me Alice Sheridan.

Me Louise Fletcher

and today we're joined by Karen Stumper.

Hi Karen.

Hi, Louise, hi Alice.

Hi, so nice to see you.

And you. So if you haven't come across Karen's work before, she is another artist based in the UK.

In 2018, she started a world tour with sketchbooks which I really want to hear about and

this led to a demand for online courses

very organically, no big business plan, but we thought even before all of this

kicks off, so we are recording in March 2020 and even before this virus situation kicked off and it's going to

make online learning I think even more relevant We just wanted to talk to Karen about how as an artist you can build and grow just this idea of sharing I suppose what you learn into sharing with other

artists and you know how it can all develop really so how did it start for you?

Well I was a teaching secondary in school for quite a few years, but before that I worked in the travel with tourism. So I was quite comfortable working with groups of people and with traveling and whilst I was teaching I started organizing art and yoga holidays in

the South France in the school holiday time so I went headlong straight into full one-week

holidays with people where I taught them three hours a day we did out workshops.

That was adults and before then you'd be teaching in school.

I was still teaching full time in school and I wanted, you know, I was an artist, I was a traveler and a teacher and I wanted to bring the three together and also I taught yoga.

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