The Ebb and Flow of Creativity with Megan Woodard-Johnson [32]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Settle down, you are in for a treat in this discussion of the artist as problem solver!
Megan Woodard Johnson is a mixed media artist who layers vintage paper ephemera with paint, various drawing media and found objects to tell evocative stories within her work.
Alice talks with Megan about that fact that an artist's growth is rarely linear and how we can only make sense of it all when we look backwards at everything that happened.
The wide-ranging discussion also covered building a creative practice alongside a family, how to find honest critiques of your work, and how new classes and experiences can invigorate us as artists. Megan also offered practical tips for loading your car (!), teaching workshops, and how creative collaborations can allow you to blossom.
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See more of Megan’s work at:
http://www.meganwoodardjohnson.com/
Find her on Instagram at: @meganwoodardjohnsonart
https://www.instagram.com/meganwoodardjohnsonart/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | finally got myself to where the abstract work is saying what I want to say in a way that I can't imagine |
| 0:05.9 | Representational work saying and so that's so fun. It's been such a year of growth in that way. Hello everybody and welcome back to Art Juice. |
| 0:18.0 | This is behind the scenes conversations about making art and the creative life with me, |
| 0:26.3 | Alice Sheridan and today we have something different for you. Today I am joined by Megan Wooder Johnson. You're going to have to tell you if I say your name properly. |
| 0:36.5 | That was perfect. Good good good and we are just going to be having a chat about her work along similar lines to the way that we usually talk in art juice, but we just thought it would be a lovely opportunity to get to know some of our listeners and fellow artists a bit better. |
| 0:53.4 | So welcome Megan, it's lovely to have you here. |
| 0:55.8 | Oh, it's so nice to be here, thank you. |
| 0:59.0 | So I have been lifting your copy from your website where it describes you as a mixed media artist |
| 1:06.0 | who layers vintage paper ephemera with paint, various drawing media and then found objects |
| 1:12.1 | which tell evocative stories. |
| 1:15.0 | How long ago did you write that on your website? |
| 1:18.0 | It was on last week. |
| 1:19.0 | No, I'm just kidding. |
| 1:21.0 | I think I really sort of built that website and put that artist, put my artist's statement |
| 1:27.8 | together about a year and a half, maybe two years ago. |
| 1:31.8 | But I update it and my work has changed and shifted just a little bit in the last year. |
| 1:37.6 | So actually it is true that last week I updated the verbiage so. |
| 1:43.0 | Oh, well done me. |
| 1:45.0 | So we are fully current because it's one of those things, isn't it, that I think we look at |
| 1:50.0 | when we first put a website together and then we think right that's done and then you kind of go back I know I do sometimes I go back to it and I think is that what it's still says I need to change Yes absolutely it's sort of on my list of things to do to start reaching out to new galleries and show opportunities and things like that. |
| 2:07.3 | So I did a little updating because I wanted to make sure that anybody that clicked on the link from my emails got the best, |
| 2:15.4 | the most curated site. |
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